Due to a horrific accident at the time of birth, Frances Gilbert was born with a mental age of 78. She spent her twilight childhood with a pair of retarded aunts, who would laugh and mash trifle into their faces when asked simple questions like 'do you think my poetry is too reliant on rudimentary personification and redundant nature metaphor?' At the age of 21, Frances got her first home, situated in a picturesque void that drains its occupants of mirth and makes everyone jolly angry about the state of everything. She has no plans to move.

You surround me and I hate you
15 July 2006
I am feeling bleak, like a consort of pelicans have gouged into my lungs, and swilled their yobbish, drunken gullets in my frail innards. Why me? Why was I born to this

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Not So Heavenly Now
5 June 2006
I read in the newspapers today that a meteor passed within 100,000km of our Earth. I didn't need to read a newspaper to know this; I could feel its drunken, yobbish malevolence boring straight into my soul. Has it come to this, that I must live in terror not only from every other living creature on Earth, but from ill-mannered asteroids...

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