POETRY FORUM

SLEEP, MY FAVOURITE THING

by Bradford Middleton on June 30, 2013 :: 0 comments

Drifting off to sleep again
In the middle of the afternoon
Had no time for lunch today
Just the time to smoke and think

The inevitable is coming
Sooner than I expected
But away I go to my favourite place
The Land of Nod

I love to sleep
It’s one of my favourite things
The dreams I can have
The rest I can get

Sleep really is my favourite thing
And my bed is my favourite place.

editors note:

Smoke and think about sleeping; sleep and dream about smoking. Hold off the inevitable… zzzzzzzzzzzzz. – mh

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A bit about Bradford: Bradford Middleton lives in Brighton on England’s south coast. He won his first poetry competition at age 9, then promptly gave up for twenty-five years and, it’s fair to say, his style has changed some since those days. When he moved here he knew no one and had no money so would spend his nights in his room writing mad frantic verse to keep his mind awake. Then one day the impossible happened, those glorious souls at Mad Swirl agreed to publish one of his poems. Since then he’s been published all over the internet, in some journals and zines, and had five chapbooks of his poems released. The latest, The Whiskey Stings Good Tonight…, published in 2023 by the Alien Buddha Press, even features a blurb by MH Clay, poetry editor right here at the Mad Swirl. Bradford is hopeful his debut collection will come to some point soon and he’s making plans for something exciting… Follow him on Twitter/X @BradfordMiddle5.