Stay Off
written by: Paul Brookes
@PaulDragonwolf1
Stay Off
the track. It’s too safe,
too cossetted. Venture
into a wild full of edge.
Into where you can’t see clearly.
Can’t touch earth, can’t hear much.
When you shout it is only
your own voice answers back.
Rely on your untrustworthy self.
Your stomach curls, every move means pain.
Look forward to scabs and scars.
Paul Brookes
Paul Brookes is a shop asst. Lives in a cat house full of teddy bears. His chapbooks are The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley (Dearne Community Arts, 1993), The Headpoke and Firewedding (Alien Buddha Press, 2017), A World Where and She Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017, 2018), The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS, 2017), Port Of Souls (Alien Buddha Press, 2018), Forthcoming Stubborn Sod, illustrated by Marcel Herms (Alien Buddha Press, 2018).
Latest posts by Paul Brookes (see all)
- Kept Himself - May 14, 2019
- Stay Off - June 4, 2018
- A Thing I - January 25, 2018
