A friend is someone you can talk to. Friends don’t have to be brilliant, spectacular, amazing – they can be just who they are. Molly Naylor captures this wittily in her poem “You’re Alright” published in Whatever You’ve Got (Bad Betty Press, 2022).
“You’re alright you are, you’re fine.
You’re six out of ten.
You’re medium cheese.”
“You’re an apple, you’re fine.
You’re a biro, it works.
You’re flowers from the Esso,
they’re still flowers.”
“You’re like when someone has a Q in Scrabble
and uses it to spell ‘queen’.”
Task: Think of a friend and try to describe how comfortable you feel with them through the images you choose. You could start with “You’re alright you are, you’re fine.”
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