National Poetry Competition Longlist 2017

In 2017 I was longlisted for the Nationl Poetry Competiton with a poem named When I Was a Boy I Lived Like Water.
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When I was a boy I lived like water

I remember living like Water, getting married, murdering, and what kissing was like. I remember for the first time standing up, naked from the waist down, without fear. We would ruin each other and show our selves bare, and begin not to care that we were nude. Childhood was shameful. We went from shameless social murder to shameless social sex, and I don’t think we had anything between the two. - There was a time when neither were acceptable. That liminal phase we all felt was like the stones on the beach between the sea and a pair of sandals. I can recall the moment I continued. It was seminal. Mistake: in action and future telemarketing courses to take on jobs I don’t and didn’t want. There’s the mistake, no escape. Consequential: in motion and continual development that never stops falling up a set of stairs and I’m not a child; that is why it’s seminal. I was to live like a river - sensational: like childhood.