where we are right now & dying

stamping
this old flesh
for id

………….i am

………….a visual
recognition for dizzy
gestapo

……………look out
the man says

…………………weather
can hurt with stars & crossed
numbers.give me a

………………………………skin

……………………………………..cured
for all ends such means
i hear

………….scream
a night & all
the broken windows we’re
here again like
never leaving.you
see me & my
bar code careless and tattoo cyphers

Reuben Woolley

Reuben Woolley has been published in quite a few magazines such as Tears in the Fence, Lighthouse, The Interpreter’s House, the anthology, The Dizziness of Freedom, Ink Sweat & Tears, Proletarian Poetry, And Other Poems and The Poet’s Shed. He has five books to his name, the latest being some time we are heroes, published by The Corrupt Press (2018). He has a book forthcoming, this hall of several tortures, to be published by Knives Forks and Spoons Press (September 2019). He edits the online magazines, I am not a silent poet and The Curly Mind.