Yellow Mama E zine

Childhood Haunts

 

by Simon MacCulloch

 

Welcome to Orangedale Town Centre.

LCS department store and Saturday market.

Tube station, newsstand outside with all kinds of comics.

This one’s got the story where the guy gets boiling lead poured down his throat.

Public library, with a little secondhand book shop opposite.

See, he drowns the monster in boiling lead

Woolworths. Boots. Sainsbury’s.

But the monster isn’t dead, it comes back

Quality Men’s Clothing, and there’s a separate store for boys a few doors along.

Even though it’s all burnt up, and it gets the guy, and

Fish and Chips, Express Dairy.

It gets this big spoon, like this soup ladle, right

Florist, fruit and veg, people come from all around for the fruit and veg, it’s so cheap and there’s so much choice.

And it holds the guy’s mouth open and

Catholic church and primary school.

It pours all this boiling lead

Dominican convent and secondary school.

Right down

Council-run home for the elderly right there on the Broadway. General hospital, with A&E. Co-op funeral parlour, one of three in fact.

His throat.

Here’s the local. Fancy a drink?

 

 

            Simon MacCulloch lives in London and contributes poetry to a variety of publications, such as Black Petals, Spectral Realms, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, Apocalypse Confidential, and others.

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       Bernice Holtzman’s paintings and collages have appeared in shows at various venues in Manhattan, including the Back Fence in Greenwich Village, the Producer’s Club, the Black Door Gallery on W. 26th St., and one other place she can’t remember, but it was in a basement, and she was well received. She is the Assistant Art Director for Yellow Mama.

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