Contributor: Paul Tristram

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‘By Hook or by Crook’ only works
when you are out for revenge
or power hungry to such a degree
that no one else’s feelings matter.
Call me old fashioned…
but that isn’t love.
And as she sits all the way back there,
stuck in the past,
dabbing her vindictive selfishness
with too much dewberry.
Hating and lamenting
the slow grind through another
emotionally empty year.
I pat myself upon the back
and think…lucky escape.
Why the Hell would anyone
want to tie their loving heart to that?


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Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories, sketches and photography published in many publications around the world, he yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids instead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight; this too may pass, yet. Buy his book ‘Poetry From The Nearest Barstool’ at http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1326241036 And a split poetry book ‘The Raven And The Vagabond Heart’ with Bethany W Pope at http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1326415204