I’ve Come to Bottle It

by Paul Tristram / October 11th, 2020

“… is this the place
with the ‘Long-Three’
with scarred throat?

… I’ve heard
that she’s freshly
heartbroken

… and that she’s
refusing
to Grieve, alone

… in a dark backroom
of the busy
Sing-Song House

… that she’s fighting,
the absolute impossible,
publicly

… and spends
her fractured evenings
playing the Gehu

… with a
soft, suicidal,
aching-tenderness

… that’s priceless.”

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.

This article was posted on Sunday, October 11th, 2020 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.