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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.)

"there must be lulls of DOING NOTHING OR YOU DIE"
Charles Bukowski - letter to Sheri Martinelli: September 1961

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I’ve sat in the bath for an hour
staring at steam
watching it dance
talking to it sometimes
then listening to what it has to say.

the kids are gone,
and the house
stinks of being empty.

fungal growths, impotence, and death
snigger in corners.

I could hunt them down
and take them on -

but no.

and though the cold is electric against my skin,
and from outside I hear a starling
do an impression of a police siren

I push away
worries of being fat and unloved
and sit staring at nothing.

© Wayne Dean-Richards

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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