Going Nowhere Fast
Impotent in family life and ineffectual at work,
sometimes he would spend a full quarter-hour
just circulating the mini-roundabout on his moped,
dizzy from the power of blocking everyone else.
Gordon Vells is a writer and translator from Dorset. His latest collection is The Stoat–Weasel Interface and his work has appeared in And Other Poems, Flights, Ink Sweat & Tears, Macrame Literary Journal, Poetry Scotland and elsewhere.