The Disentangling.
This poem is about
putting the past
aside,
welcoming you
with open arms,
whilst hiding
the switchblade
and thrusting it
into your soft
underbelly -
no really
this poem is about
the day I die,
but in truth
how each day
on earth was a gift,
yet when it comes
down to it
this poem
is about marking
something mundane
within the quotidian,
like eating rice crackers
whilst doing the laundry,
which is really just
to distract us all from
the fact that this poem
exists in a confusing
and expanding
universe -
then again this
poem is about you
finding something
in these lines -
some chunk of my flesh
to take home with you,
missing all that I left
hiding in plain sight,
as you fumble
in the dark for the key,
unaware that this poem
has already finished.
The Bottomless Brunch.
One dish,
and as much
as you wanted
to drink
in two hours -
which soon
became a race
between us
to get as pissed
as humanly possible.
In the end
we all succeeded
and drunk as lords,
we’d staggered back
to our homes -
ready for bed
by lunchtime.
Young ‘n’ Dumb.
15 years old back in school,
between the raging hormones,
black eyes, skipped classes,
shitty grades, sampled cigarettes,
prophecies of an already
broken future,
self loathing and doubt –
the new hardline headteacher
sat me down, after I’d shaved
a mohawk into my hair
with my mum’s hair clippers
the night before and told me
that I was going to be
suspended for my new hairdo.
‘Most people in this world are
stupid people pretending
to be smart, but for some reason
it’s like you’ve chosen to be
the exact opposite in life,’ she said.
I listened, but was far more
interested in the magpies fighting
over a chip butty outside,
and sometimes I want to return
to that time,
to feel as free as those magpies
through that window,
young and dumb again -
instead of now where I’m mostly
and even blissfully, just the latter.
Gwil James Thomas is a poet, novelist and inept musician. He lives in his home town of Bristol, England but has also lived in London, Brighton and Spain. His most recent poetry chapbooks are Part English, Part Welsh, Part Wolf (Scumbag Press) and The Labourer Poems (Hickathrift Press). His poetry was also recently featured in the Songs From The Underground anthology (East London Press) alongside the likes of Li-Po, Charles Bukowski, William Blake, Lord Byron, John King, Richard Brautigan, Valarie Solanas, Marquis De Sade, Mark SaFranko and Jospeh Ridgwell. His poetry chapbook Gold Chains Around our Necks, Hellhounds at our Heels is forthcoming from Holy & Intoxicated Publications.
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