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Alone The latest poem from Wayne Dean-Richards' It's a Mad World, But Funny collection

Alone

The latest poem from Wayne Dean-Richards' It's a Mad World, But Funny collection

by Wayne Dean-Richards,
first published: March, 2023

approximate reading time: minutes

I weigh myself, what does it mean?

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. 

Buy A Mad World But Funny from our new otherwise quite empty shop here

Download a PDF version for free here 

It's A Mad World But Funny (complete) 

  1. a father's advice to a son being interviewed to work on the Coventry Ring Road - 1958
  2. a shopping list and Lowry
  3. alone
  4. big dog training
  5. buying boxer shorts in next
  6. lanyard life
  7. melancholy
  8. snowman
  9. this house
  10. fight in an art gallery
  11. you cunts
  12. road rage
  13. different face
  14. Dostoyevsky didn't have to put up with this
  15. the cleaner
  16. bailout
  17. glue
  18. are you

Wayne Dean-Richards

Wayne Dean-Richards works with short stories and the novel. His work has been published in magazines and anthologies in the UK and the US. Some of that work can be found in his collection Cuts, available here


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