Alone
The latest poem from Wayne Dean-Richards' It's a Mad World, But Funny collection
by Wayne Dean-Richards,
first published: March, 2023
first published: March, 2023
I weigh myself, what does it mean?
Wayne Dean-Richards has shared 18 poems for us to publish during the tail end of the winter and on into spring. The collection is called It's a Mad World, But Funny. Eventually there will be a free, downloadable PDF of all the poems and a planned A6 compendium too. (Links to all of the poems way down the page.)
alone
I weigh myself, what does it mean?
today, I’m heavier than I was yesterday,
but not as heavy as I was last week, a month ago,
last year, what does it mean?
I kneel and adjust the scales.
now when I step back on,
according to these scales and these scales alone,
I weigh the same as I did yesterday, what does it mean?
I get off the scales and adjust them
so that they’re correct again, why?
I run a bath and sit in hot water.
for an hour, I sweat. after which I
dry myself then weigh
myself again. now I weigh the same
as I did yesterday. it’s more satisfying
to adjust myself than it is to adjust the scales, why is that?
later I’ll weigh myself – stripped naked - in the dark.
when I do if I’m unable to see the numbers on the scales
will it mean I don’t weigh anything?
will it?
alone, I wait for an answer.
Essential Info
The 18 poems comprising Wayne Dean-Richards' IT'S A MAD WORLD BUT FUNNY series are listed below. Outsideleft will be publishing them all throughout the spring of 2023. A free downloadable PDF and a limited edition A6 chapbook (for neither profit or loss) of these poems will be available at the end. But not till then.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
fight in an art gallery
11.
you cunts
12.
road rage
13.
different face
14.
Dostoevsky didn’t have to put up with this
15.
the cleaner
16.
bailout
17.
glue
18.
are you
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