HARD & HEAVY

by John D. Robinson

One of those lousy gray gloomy

raining hard and heavy days:

we’d made a contact, made the

meet and went back home to

taste our purchase and we

were devastated: we’d been

burnt badly: the shit was

soaking wet and our

women laughed at us:

once it was dried, we got

3 lousy joints of

nothingness: we didn’t

laugh but watched the rain

relentlessly cascading and

it seemed to add to our

sense of desperation and

disappointment:

we opened our first

bottle of wine,

 it was 10 AM

and we hoped that it

would make the day a

little easier to swing with

and our women

stopped laughing

and looked out at

the rain.

John D. Robinson is a UK poet. Hundreds of his poems have appeared in print and online: he has published several chapbooks and Uncollected Press will shortly be publishing his first full collection, Hang in There.