GENETICALLY FLAWED
‘spite
tryin’ our hardest
not to grow up
to be
alike
our father
’s…
we
a ’r
in-
articulate, fairly
unattractive, unlike-
able, misjudged
by almost
ev’ryone
re: “Run,
’s,
un-
watched, over-
looked, under-
grounded
but deep down we
mean well
but deeper down we’re
well mean
read us
read us n’ weep
the forgotten wordless
gunmetal argentine
back of a highway
roadside
sign
stilled against the wavering—destination
unknown
WHEN WE GREW UP…
ur losin’ ur ‘ouse w/ a smile on ur face u drove me up the pub. I got ur takeaway. ur kids dont say dad but use ur 1st name: strangers on the streets scream bloody disgrace. u’ve worked ur ‘ole life they call u a waste they’ll c me in ‘ell I’ll c u in space
Roy Duffield is a writer and translator and the art editor over at Anti-Heroin Chic, a journal that puts those on the outside inside. He is a winner of the Robert Allen Micropoem Contest (2021), was honoured to be chosen to perform at the 2019 Beat Poetry Festival in Barcelona and his words have recently been spotted entering such nefarious establishments as Versification, Into the Void (Saboteur Best Magazine, 2017 & 2018), The Ink Sac (Cephalopress), The Journal, The Dawntreader (Indigo Dreams, Ted Slade Award for Services to Poetry), Night Bus to Speakers’ Corner, SurVision Magazine, The London Reader‘s Raves & Resistance: Counterculture number, and of course the world’s oldest and most prestigious publication – his personal Instagram: @drinking_traveller.
Flight of the dragonfly 