Kurt Newton

The nineteenth poetry chapbook from back room poetry.

The ever-evolving alphabet is a whimsical dark fantasy of the macabre and the absurd. A cornucopia of the bizarre and the surreal.

Here is a taster poem from the chapbook to arouse your poetry appetite:

Kaleidescape
 
Bring the kids
 
(specially those troubled ones
that run about like windup toys
that never wind down
and never listen to a word you say)
 
A playground for young and old alike
 
(if you can imagine a jungle gym
the size of a tenement building
so intricate, once entered, it's near
impossible to find one's way out again)
 
Free to the public
 
(ever since the economy crashed
and people had to choose
between paying the bills
or putting food on the table)
 
Desperate times call for desperate actions
 
(kiss them goodbye,
if they'll stand still long enough,
and send them on their way,
all screams you hear are screams of joy)
 
There are no judgements here

BR19: 4 August 2023. Poetry chapbook.

The ever-evolving alphabet

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