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’ published by Close To The Bone Publishing is available to purchase right here 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.