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"Lonelier Than Roy Orbison Ever Was" by S.Bennett

Christmas Eve night

And the pub is not very full,

Although there is a hundred percent more

People than last year,

When it was closed,

And we were locked down

Like pampered prisoners.


The DJ plays the same songs

As he does every weekend.

And when he plays

‘Love really hurts without you,’

I feel like crying,

Because it is true.


There is a man in here

Who looks like a garden gnome,

Woolly hat pulled down,

Squashing his ears,

A carefully constructed beard.

He grabs a kiss from a woman with large breasts,

Who then staggers to the bar top heavy,

Ready for more shots,

That she spills down her chest.


My friend Karl has walked in

And it appears he has been drinking

All day again.

He sits alone with his eyes shut tight,

Occasionally clapping along to the song,

And jerks his denim clad body,

Awkwardly.


I don’t know if Karl and I

Will see another Christmas,

If we don’t quit

This drinking tradition.




S.Bennett is a new poet from Rotherham, England. He has poems appearing in the Spring issues of boatsagainstthecurrent and Delicate Emissions.

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