Furniture in flatpacks '
Don't box me in' I said
All these imported homewares
were going to his head

My boyfriend took me to IKEA
and he took an allen key to my heart.

Aisles of haberdashery
cheap meatballs, supposedly food
but some of this periphery
hints pretension or renders crude.

My boyfriend took me to IKEA
and he took an allen key to my heart.