It’s Nice To Be Dressed For A Change

It is just another ordinary day,
on Normal Terrace.
Two-thirty in the afternoon,
the sun is out, now-and-then,
in the partially cloudy/blue
Springtime sky overhead.
A Council Worker is,
not exactly busy but working,
trimming a roadside tree.
The schoolchildren
are all in school,
and the Main Drag
looks quite quaint,
in a very British
small Village kind of way.
Folk are strolling-by
at a half-walk,
and someone’s even riding a bicycle.
The only thing wrong with this picture,
is Mary, in her Charity Shop
shoes, blouse and trousers,
sitting at a table
outside the Rosebud Café
with a Carer
from St. Donald’s Mental Hospital
situated up on top of Reservoir Hill.
It’s her 2nd day of
‘Reintroduction Into The Community’
and her Border Collie
enthusiastic smiling
is making every decent local feel ill.

Paul Tristram is a widely published Welsh writer who deals in the Lowlife, Outsider, and Outlaw genres.  He wrote his first poem as a teenager following his release from the (Infamous) Borstal ‘HMP Portland’, and he has been creating Literary Terrorism ever since.  His novel ‘Crazy Like Emotion’ is available to purchase right here . Also his collection of shorter fiction Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves' is available to purchase at https://bookgoodies.com/a/B0DFMTSR4F Both books are published by Close To The Bone Publishing. Read other articles by Paul, or visit Paul's website.