Written By: Paul Tristram
‘Blood and Mischief’
… all over your
Gladrags…
and you were only
spectating
… as those two
animated geezers
battered ‘seven
different shades
of shite’
out of each other…
over the vacant seat
next to your cuteness.
You could get
someone killed
with the coyest smile
… destroy friends
and family alike
by your absence…
and, ruin lives by
(cooly) looking away.
Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories and flash fiction included 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. His novel “Crazy Like Emotion”, collection of shorter fiction “Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves”, full-length poetry collections “The Dark Side Of British Poetry”, "It Is Big & It Is Clever", “South Wales Outlaw”, “Uncivil Disobedience Is My Forte” and “The Gutter Symposium” are all available by Close To The Bone Publishing & Hunsbury Press.