Wayne Dean-Richards has shared 18 poems for us to publish during 2023. The collection is called It's a Mad World, But Funny. Eventually there will be a free, downloadable PDF of all the poems and a planned A6 compendium too. (Links to all of the poems way down the page.)
alone
I weigh myself, what does it mean?
today, I’m heavier than I was yesterday,
but not as heavy as I was last week, a month ago,
last year, what does it mean?
I kneel and adjust the scales.
now when I step back on,
according to these scales and these scales alone,
I weigh the same as I did yesterday, what does it mean?
I get off the scales and adjust them
so that they’re correct again, why?
I run a bath and sit in hot water.
for an hour, I sweat. after which I
dry myself then weigh
myself again. now I weigh the same
as I did yesterday. it’s more satisfying
to adjust myself than it is to adjust the scales, why is that?
later I’ll weigh myself – stripped naked - in the dark.
when I do if I’m unable to see the numbers on the scales
will it mean I don’t weigh anything?
will it?
alone, I wait for an answer.
© Wayne Dean-Richards
Essential Information
The 18 poems comprising Wayne Dean-Richards' IT'S A MAD WORLD BUT FUNNY series are listed below. Outsideleft published them all throughout 2023 and 2024. A free downloadable PDF and a limited edition A6 Outsideleft Booklet (for neither profit or loss) is available now we are at the end.
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Download a PDF version for free here
It's A Mad World But Funny (complete)
- a father's advice to a son being interviewed to work on the Coventry Ring Road - 1958
- a shopping list and Lowry
- alone
- big dog training
- buying boxer shorts in next
- lanyard life
- melancholy
- snowman
- this house
- fight in an art gallery
- you cunts
- road rage
- different face
- Dostoyevsky didn't have to put up with this
- the cleaner
- bailout
- glue
- are you