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photo via pickpik.com

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The Sounds Outside My Window
………(for Jack Kerouac)

So the drunk old genius of the road once wrote that the sounds outside his window were worthy of his poetical consideration but right now, out of mine, all I can hear are seagulls squawking and sirens wailing and, in a quiet moment, the road between me and the huge blue expanse of sea and maybe, just maybe, I see what he means & how the mayhem out there can still seep into my mind and out onto these pages.

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Bradford Middleton lives in Brighton on England’s south coast.  Recent poems have been published at Mad Swirl, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Blotter Rag, Dear Booze, Fixator Press and in the Acid Bath anthology ‘Night Terrors’.  His most recent book came out last year from the Alien Buddha Press.

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Listen to Tom Waits perform “The Piano Has Been Drinking”

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