Yellow Mama E zine

SHELVES OVERFLOWING

 

by Bradford Middleton

 

I been sorting my room around again

With the hope of ever finding another

Damn place in this maddening town

Vanishing with every passing days

As the greed of the landlords gets too

Much for a lot like me. I moved

All the books from boxes onto a

Shelf above my bed which now sits

A dozen paperbacks high on over

Five different piles. They are

Still to be read and I know, as I

Gaze upon the two that came into

My hands this week, that I must

Stop, stop all this buying before

I’ve even finished every single

Last one of them or at least some

Of them and to think I just gone

& landed a job in a bookshop!

 

 

Bradford Middleton lives in Brighton on England’s south coast. Recent poems have been, or will be shortly, published at The Literary Underground, Down in the Dirt, Beach Chair Review, Cajun Mutt Press, and the Mad Swirl.  His debut collection of poems is currently under consideration from a few different small presses.

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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.