Before my time
the guy upstairs
lay dead for a fortnight
before anyone
clocked it
This appears to be
a common thing
in Wood Green
The epicentre
of mountainous mail
pile-ups
decaying neighbours
and shrugs
It’s really quite renowned for it
One local deceased got a
sympathetic documentary
portrait – an empty fame
the guy upstairs did not.
See, apparently he was
some sort of
neighbour-from-hell
megatwat
So I guess,
that explains that.
Gary W. Hartley is also known as Gary From Leeds. His debut collection ‘Your Attempt to Enjoy These Poems is Considered Unsatisfactory’ is out now on LSL Press.