I’m Not Going To Jail For You… You Are!

~ The skill of purposeful awkward movement (bird faking broken wing) ~

by Paul Tristram / August 6th, 2023

It looks just like ‘Mental Disarray’
because of the [Frantic] Chaos
… but, each new [Exquisite]
Sidestep out of Sanity…
is merely part of the… ‘Dance’.
“I know, she Frowns when
people Smile… and vice versa
… it’s Delightful
and Deplorable all at the same
[Cock-Teasing] Time… Fuck!!!”
Look at this… I’ve hurt myself
before you could get near… me.
Aye, at the point of Detonation
… I [S]poke all c-a-l-m-l-y…
“Envelopes will be your Demise”
… she Retracted [Violently]
and put down the Scissors…
with a [Repulsed] clumsy Clatter.
I’ve taken nearly every single
type of [Street] Drug in existence
over the last thirty odd years…
and, nothing compares to the
[Unbeatable] ruSHHH of
taking down ‘Machiavellianism’
… at the very first few seconds
of the realisation that it was,
in fact, ‘Baiting’ its own… TRAP.

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, August 6th, 2023 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.