paul sheridan

paul sheridan 12h

after school

beans on toast
with brown sauce
and a cup of tea
what more could you want ..

nineteen seventy

paul sheridan 12h

the night she knew she’d got me

a staff night out
her in a little black dress
you could have made a bit of an effort
I said

paul sheridan 12h

Untitled

fingernails need cutting
remarks are always annoying
I’ll get around to it

paul sheridan 13h

..

got off the bus
and stepped in front of
a tortoise

I said, please,
go ahead,
there’s no rush ..

paul sheridan 1d

drifter

the wind is stronger than me
I’m a weakling
blown about in the air
without an inkling of where this is going
to take longer than I thought
for such an unimportant poem

paul sheridan 2d

I know it was in new york but

the united nations just sat there
and took it
as trump talked
*******, I thought someone should have laughed

paul sheridan 2d

Untitled

thought I’d become a writer when
I grew up
but I didn’t