Blue Ink is Bee's first poetry chapbook.
Blue Ink is inspired by the fairy-tale Bluebeard. It explores the traps of domestic violence and the struggle for self- empowerment.
THE GIRLS
In every fairy tale there is a princess and she is a sugar cube. she dissolves so quickly and leaves no trace. no outline of who she was.
All the girls all the girls all those girls
Your names imprinted in sugar sticks of rock
Kirsty, Nicole, Camille, Jennie.
Creatures of the Fee Fi Fo Fum you are nothing but the girls. the girls. open mouth, shut mouth open legs, shut legs.
How terrible to be glamourous and yet
disposable as a tissue.
I have known you forever and yet you are instantly forgettable
You are all the same girl with different coloured eyes. different coloured cunts. You are the same. doll heads on a factory line –
Porn things!
Paper chain princesses
Pull off a head and stick it on another
No one would fucking notice.
