Colin James

Surviving the Last Person Eaten Alive Contest

                        The flyers were misleading
                        no door prizes,
                        ticket stubs not referred to
                        for the remainder of the evening.
                        My date was incognito
                        affectively unrecognizable.
                        I gave up looking
                        after surveying the other choices.
                        Struck up a conversation
                        with a cute volunteer.
                        She was inexplicably courteous.
                        I seemed to be making headway
                        even offering her some land I owned
                        on the Scottish coast.
                        Then they brought the hyenas in.
                        The noise was disconcerting.
                        We stood at the back kissing.
                        Her skin went from white to pallid.
                        The opposite of what I was expecting.

Colin James has a couple of chapbooks of poetry published. Dreams Of The Really Annoying from Writing Knights Press and A Thoroughness Not Deprived of Absurdity from Piski's Porch Press and a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press.