New Poetry by Aidan Coleman

Dream Careers Awaken

1.

                   Still

you have to hang out with other footballers,

           their wives and girlfriends.

2.

       Your clue is this:

crime begets paperwork

                           begets crime.

3.

        This is what it’s like to be

                    in a band

     carps the singer, shackled

                     to a microphone stand.

4.

            Take Thirty-seven.

 

5.

                    Stare long enough

         and the blank page

             suggests

better ways of wasting time.

- © Aidan Coleman 2022

Aidan Coleman has published three collections of poetry, most recently Mount Sumptuous (Wakefield Press, 2020).