by Ben Stainton

1. waking up with a cat

asleep on my face

the christmas you spiked

my dinner with hash

2.the day involving a rhinoceros

and a large box of knives

at the infamous village

fete of eighty nine

the birthday i fell into a tanker

full of sewage and dad

walked into sainsburys

to buy bleach and was killed

3.playing ice hockey

semi-naked on pills

the day a bear ate

the last of my waffles

BEN STAINTON’s poems have appeared in various places, including The Rialto, Fuselit , Poetry Salzburg Review and Stop Sharpening Your Knives. His experimental pamphlet, The Backlists, is available from The Knives Forks and Spoons Press.