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Wayne Dean Richards: Nothingness 6th of 41 poems from Wayne's new collection, Days of Ordinary Madness

Wayne Dean Richards: Nothingness

6th of 41 poems from Wayne's new collection, Days of Ordinary Madness

by Wayne Dean-Richards,
first published: May, 2025

approximate reading time: minutes

6th of 41 poems from Wayne's new collection, Days of Ordinary Madness

DOOMDays of Ordinary Madness is a new collection by Wayne Dean-Richards. We're publishing all 41 poems here first...
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nothingness

in the cafe with the CLOSED sign,

I sit at a table by the window,

talking to the woman opposite me - 

who isn’t there anymore.

© 2025, Wayne Dean-Richards

DAYS OF ORDINARY MADNESS  - Introducing Wayne Dean-Richards Days of Ordinary Madness →
  1. still →
  2. cycle →
  3. 10,61 & 16 →
  4. rereading Kafka →
  5. respite →
  6. nothingness →
  7. it comes down to this →
  8. email (May 28th)
  9. at interview
  10. don’t understand
  11. conversation with a drunk
  12. apes
  13. hate song
  14. my toilet, at night
  15. being boiled
  16. Mr Cheese
  17. another day
  18. smashing time
  19. old
  20. things
  21. potato chips
  22. national pastels
  23. sub-wait #1
  24. often
  25. potting balls
  26. bailout
  27. no wonder
  28. almost
  29. they say
  30. the key
  31. the notebook
  32. in dreams
  33. gloating bastard
  34. clocking out
  35. complete cunt
  36. memory
  37. Mr Nice
  38. the blue cupboard
  39. ideologically opposed to arse-kissing
  40. the ICT atheist
  41. borderline personality disorder

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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