Office Job
dying of life – wasted
while Americana – tinny/quiet – plays in the background
and the walls encroach
and the windows shake
Children
the sister is
sitting cross-legged on her
bedroom floor in torn jeans –
surrounded by
shadows/glossy magazines/scissors/tape/scrapbooks
making kings and queens –
fawning over idols
the older brother is
alone – perched
on his amplifier
restringing his guitar
Disraeli Gears spins on his cheap turntable
and a cat sleeps –
on the hot white pillows
Alan Parry is a poet and playwright from Merseyside, England. He is an English Literature graduate and will train to teach high school English this coming academic year. Alan is a proud family man who has battled anxiety and depression for the whole of his adult life and finds writing to be a cathartic release. Alan enjoys gritty realism, open ends and work which is politically charged. He cites James Joyce, Jack Kerouac and Alan Bennett as his biggest inspirations. Alan has previously had work published by Peach Velvet Magazine, The Literary Mark Review, Black Bough Poems and others.
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