A Heart of Darkness Keeping Me Cool
There i was again,
On the check-out at work again.
Today, just like so many others
In this nice out of the way shop,
The crowd came and went, each
Asking,
“How are you dealing with the heat?”
The answer was simple.
“I ain’t,” I’d respond and then if
They probed any further i’d tell them
Just how i coped with the damn
Infernal heat.
“I pull my curtains shut, open the
Window and strip down to my
Boxers smoking more grass just
To keep me ticking along”
“Ah,” one of my colleagues
Exclaimed, “you are the heart
Of darkness!” to which I said
Nothing at all as he was probably
Half-right as I have no heart.
Bradford Middleton
Bradford Middleton lives in Brighton, UK. He is
the author of 4 chapbooks of poems, the last two available from Analog
Submission Press, and has work featured in a whole host of places including
Newington Blue’s recent Bukowski @100 anthology, a Local Gems Press anthology
celebrating Walt Whitman, literary journals such as Chiron Review and Evening
Street Review, zines such as Razur Cuts and Paper & Ink and online, most
recently in Bond Street Review, Piker Press, Poetry Life & Times, Yellow
Mama and Mad Swirl.