A Fact Losing
mission.
Somebody sent me out
to collect something somehow
somewhere.
over a rainbow. I stand
in a street I knew once
I am sure. It is familiar.
I can't understand why.
A list of things is on a piece of paper.
It certainly is my piece of paper.
No one else is holding it.
The hand writing is unfamiliar.
Somebody wrote this.
I want to ask passers by,
but I do not know them.
They are strangers, even more
than the writing on the paper.
I want to cry.
I don't feel safe.
Where is safe?
Paul Brookes
Paul Brookes is a shop asst. His chapbooks include The Fabulous
Invention Of Barnsley, (Dearne Community Arts, 1993). The Headpoke and
Firewedding (Alien Buddha Press, 2017), A World Where and She
Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017, 2018) The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS,
2017), Port Of Souls (Alien Buddha Press, 2018),Please Take Change
(Cyberwit.net, 2018) Forthcoming Stubborn Sod, (Alien Buddha Press,
2019), As Folk Over Yonder ( Afterworld Books, 2019). He edits The
Wombwell Rainbow Interviews.
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