PHEW! WHAT A SCORCHER

Headlines regurgitate last year’s
“hottest since whenever” claims,
two-page spreads bulked out
with photos of lolly-guzzling toddlers,
sun-worshippers already reddened

and some TikTok wannabe
in a string bikini. Meanwhile,
back in the real world, most of us
are squashed into nuclear reactors
cunningly disguised as family hatchbacks,

sweating through the commute
to our own cubicle-sized portions
of the ninth circle of hell: Dilbert
as the wicked witch of the workplace,
melting … melting … what a world!

 

 

Neil Fulwood has published three collections with Shoestring Press, No Avoiding It, Can’t Take Me Anywhere and Service Cancelled. His new collection, Mad Parade, published by Smokestack Books, is a volume of political satires. Neil lives and works in Nottingham.