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.
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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