Simon Barraclough
My best friend
sees every Iranian flick,
makes tiny notes in caffs,
likes a full English
but not a fried slice
because fried slice is ‘wrong’,
listens to The Beta Band,
sucks on a pipe full of cotton wool
that I bought him, pissed,
on Seventh Avenue,
dealt with his Mum’s suicide,
gets to the smallest exhibitions,
makes all technology go wrong,
stood by me when I went mad,
understands Hegel
reads a lot of S-F,
lives round the corner,
comes to Lambchop gigs,
eats too quickly,
drinks Maker’s Mark,
might be leaving town.
makes tiny notes in caffs,
likes a full English
but not a fried slice
because fried slice is ‘wrong’,
listens to The Beta Band,
sucks on a pipe full of cotton wool
that I bought him, pissed,
on Seventh Avenue,
dealt with his Mum’s suicide,
gets to the smallest exhibitions,
makes all technology go wrong,
stood by me when I went mad,
understands Hegel
reads a lot of S-F,
lives round the corner,
comes to Lambchop gigs,
eats too quickly,
drinks Maker’s Mark,
might be leaving town.
Simon Barraclough won the London
Writers Competition in 2002. He is
published in the UK and the USA.
Writers Competition in 2002. He is
published in the UK and the USA.
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