Friday, April 17, 2020

Excuses. By Gwil James Thomas


The coppers 
 pulled him over
in the stolen  
 DeLorean -
as a hooker sat 
 upright and wiped 
her mouth on 
 her sleeve. 


 ‘I’m going 
back in time,
 to stop the 
old me from 
 having that 
first drink 
 twenty two  
years ago!’ 
 he said with 
vodka breath.


The officers   
 smirked and
looking at 
 the prostitute 
riding shotgun,
 one of them 
then asked  
 ‘What’s your 
excuse then?’ 


‘I’m only here 
 for the ride,’ 
she replied, 
 as the driver 
then put his 
 foot down – 
reaching 
 88mph. 





Gwil James Thomas is a novelist, poet and inept musician originally from Bristol, England. He is a Best of The Net and Pushcart nominee whose work has appeared in publications such as 3 Poets, 3AM, Mythos Zine, Paper & Ink, Low Light Magazine, Cephalo Press and also here. His two most recent poetry chapbooks are In The Barrel of a Beautiful Wave (Holy & Intoxicated Publications) and Writing Beer, Drinking Poetry (Concrete Meat Press). He is currently laying low somewhere in Northern Spain.

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