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Different Face a new poem from Wayne Dean-Richards

Different Face

a new poem from Wayne Dean-Richards

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

approximate reading time: minutes

'different face' is from the forthcoming It's a Mad World But Funny... Wayne Dean-Richards collection, links to them all of the poems as they are published 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.)

Cover art for It's A Mad World But Funny

different face

there were a whole series
of waiting rooms.,
waiting the common ground.
you waited in one then you waited in another.
you waited and waited.
it went on like that.
along the way your details
were taken.
they were taken several times.
the same details
taken by different people.
or the same person
in the same uniform
but with a different face.

© 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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