The Eye Patch

The Eye Patch She asks me the price of luxury Christmas yoghurts. I tell her and she agrees to buy. Taking her money I wish her a grand day And hope that her eye gets

The Eye Patch

She asks me the price of luxury
Christmas yoghurts.
I tell her and she agrees to buy.

Taking her money
I wish her a grand day
And hope that her eye gets better.

It wont I'm dying she replies.
Pardon I say not quite sure
whether I hear correctly.

I'm dying and
shows me the growth
on her neck, Cancer
she says and leaves.

Paul Brookes

Paul Brookes is a shop asst. His chapbooks include The Headpoke and Firewedding (Alien Buddha Press, 2017), She Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017 2018) The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS, 2017), Please Take Change (Cyberwit.net, 2018), As Folk Over Yonder ( Afterworld Books, 2019). He edits The Wombwell Rainbow Interviews