Paul Tristram

Unpublishable 2014

Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories, sketches and photography published in many publications around the world, he yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids instead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight, this too may pass, yet.


You can read his poems and stories here! http://paultristram.blogspot.co.uk/

Juvenile Delinquency Rules OK!

 

It’s gang warfare here outside,

the grimy streets overfloweth

with bloody teenage angst.

Graffiti decorated neighbourhoods,

each corner, bypass and subway

flies a spray-painted warning sign.

With no respect for the elderly,

the Police or ordinary family folk.

Like night time animal packs

out hunting the back lanes and alleyways.

With pockets stuffed with dangerous toys

and mayhem and violence in our eyes.

Alcohol and substance abuse

add adrenalin and purpose to the mood,

keeping us always edgy and alert.

We are out here in our thousands

laying claim to the wretched night.

The daylight hours are yours only,

stay inside safe and warm

when the shadows lengthen into dark.

We’re not coming for your children,

we are your children!

It’s Better Than A Kick In The Cunt
(As My Dear Old Grandmother Used To Say!)

 

You’re just going to have to trust me on this one.

A dry garden shed with a door to pull shut

is like a night spent in The Ritz after six nights

of standing up shivering inside your wet clothes

and sleeping bag against the back of a cold factory

wall down the arse-end of a lane to nowhere.

It’s the small things you learn to enjoy,

it’s the little things that breed optimism in you.

Like that afternoon in Newquay when that guy

from St Agnes bored and annoyed everyone

getting ready to scupper down on Fistral Beach.

But you learnt from him to always keep matches

covered in candle wax in your tobacco tin,

since then you have never had a wet match

and that counts more than a pocket full of cash

when it’s 2am in January in a British Winter.

As you lay, at last out of the wind and rain

watching the full moon dancing with the steam

coming off your overcoat and boots which are

hanging up on somewhere other than your body.

And you yawn and stretch in almost contentment

as you light up that first fat roll-up for half a day.

 

2:13 Unpublishable 2014

 

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