7/2/2016 0 Comments Three poems by Brenton Booth Beyond The Horizon I haven’t been able to lift my right arm for 3 days it’s 7AM and the sky looks like a painting-- all that’s missing is you, I take a handful of painkillers with a glass of water and wonder if they will work today. Utopia Is there anything better than being young and alone believing you are a great writer, living on cheap food or no food with the occasional bottle or pill or line and occasional sex (very occasional) and nothing but small rejection slips filling up your mailbox from all the magazines-- big and small sure that any rejection is absolutely wrong and an insult to your unique ability working odd jobs to have a roof electricity paper pens and stamps with no thoughts about tomorrow or savings or serious relationships or anything other than the next story or poem and several of each coming every week; is there anything better than being young and alone believing you are a great writer: if there is I haven’t found it yet and don’t really want to. Friday The pink flowers turn brown in the driveway and my neighbours are yelling at their kids again I have music playing loud to kill the sound but the memories it brings can’t be silenced the sky grey and idols fallen the catcher left the rye and no one on the watchtower a couple of Catholics knock on my door I tell them: “God can’t save us, only we can, but we are weak, history and our lives proves this.” They walk away in silence and I wonder about the editor at Penthouse magazine the crumbed lamb cutlet on the white plate the pebble in the stream the dead wombat on the side of the highway happy to finally be alone on this Friday afternoon in Sydney the music now off and screaming ended looking over the fence trying to see past the mountains. Bio: Brenton Booth lives in Sydney, Australia. Poetry and fiction of his has appeared in many small press publications. His poetry collection " Punching The Teeth From The Sky" is available from Epic Rites Press. To read more of his work visit brentonbooth.weebly.com
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