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.)
fight in an art gallery
we went to an exhibition by John Salt
because his pictures of cars
and no fucking people appealed to me.
there were no fucking people in
Salt’s paintings but
there were a few in the gallery.
up on the second floor was where
the fight broke out: two big men
wearing baseball caps and jeans
laid into each other.
nobody did a thing to stop it
which surprised me
till I realized they thought
it was a staged fight:
a piece of performance art.
“the guy with the blue cap
will win,” I said,
“the other guy’s too slow,
carries his hands too low.”
“everyone’s
a fucking critic,” my better half said
which shut me right up.
© 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)
- 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
