{"id":15597,"date":"2023-09-16T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/academia\/"},"modified":"2023-09-16T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T13:57:33","slug":"academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Academia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

by Jenny Mitchell, with above image by Chad McCail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This is not a campus for the poor. The posh,
in drab designer clothes, labels on the outside \u2013
wealth flapping in the sun. A coddled generation,
prepared to have it all, held up as leaders
of the world, when I hail from a council flat \u2013
the first child in my family to ever sit exams.<\/p>\n

The rich must sense I do not know my arse
from elbow \u2013 how to cook a bechamel.
Is it the same as a white sauce? Black girl
begins to hide her voice \u2013 How now brown cow?<\/em>
Call me Eliza Doolittle. Who knows about
the rain in Spain? I\u2019ve never been abroard.<\/p>\n

Debt is accrued by lounging in a coffee shop \u2013
scones filled with cream and jam, hot chocolate
poured up to the brim. I\u2019m awed by silver spoons
between thin lips. The upper one is always stiff.
Money sharpens vowels \u2013 a cut-glass voice,
words I long to speak trapped down my throat.<\/p>\n

First published by <\/em>Poetry Wales<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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