search for something...

search for something you might like...

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

You Cunts

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

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

approximate reading time: minutes

'you cunts' is only the latest poem from the forthcoming Wayne Dean-Richards collection, It's a Mad World But Funny... links to them all at the bottom of the page

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.)

 

you cunts

at me again for fucking up
and being late
arriving with a dose of the farts
the result
of too much of everything
the night before.
and it’s fucking cold
and more sleep would be good
oh, and a crap.
(best get the order
right there)
but instead
after a slog through angry traffic
here I am again
at the fucking workface
being badgered
being hectored
the usual crises raining down
and the noise next door
and all the arse-kissers just as smug as ever
forcing me
to drink coffee until
my head’s ready to explode
when, unexpectedly,
I grab sheets and fucking sheets
of paper
and write on them with a BIG
permanent marker
then stand up
and hold up what I’ve written
for all to see
laughing at their shocked slappy faces
when they read:
YOU CUNTS

© 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


about Wayne Dean-Richards »»

Pete Williams web banner

RECENT STORIES

RANDOM READS

All About and Contributors

HELP OUTSIDELEFT

Outsideleft exists on a precarious no budget budget. We are interested in hearing from deep and deeper pocket types willing to underwrite our cultural vulture activity. We're not so interested in plastering your product all over our stories, but something more subtle and dignified for all parties concerned. Contact us and let's talk. [HELP OUTSIDELEFT]

WRITE FOR OUTSIDELEFT

If Outsideleft had arms they would always be wide open and welcoming to new writers and new ideas. If you've got something to say, something a small dank corner of the world needs to know about, a poem to publish, a book review, a short story, if you love music or the arts or anything else, write something about it and send it along. Of course we don't have anything as conformist as a budget here. But we'd love to see what you can do. Write for Outsideleft, do. [SUBMISSIONS FORM HERE]

OUTSIDELEFT UNIVERSE

Pete Williams, outsideleft night out
OUTSIDELEFT Night Out
weekend

outsideleft content is not for everyone