Tuesday, March 15, 2022

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).


 

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