two poems

by KG Miles

Revolution Psalm

Robin Hood*, Robin Hood riding through the glen

Robin Hood, Robin Hood with his band of men

Feared by the bad

Loved by the good

Funded by The Communist Party Of America

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood.

*All through the 1950’s, subliminal messages of hope

and the redistribution of wealth were fed through the

TV to our kids. Yet as those kids grew they simply

shrugged and served. Shirtless Jesus wept.

Wealth Creation Psalm

He took each candelabra high child by the immeasured scruff

of the hand, leading the pupils severelly gently through

the mind field of shattered glass.

‘ Wealth and riches are in their houses* and their

righteousness endures forever’ He told

The South Wales Guardian, adding ‘and I would have gotten

away** with it too, if it weren’t for that pesky camel’.

*It is not a castle,it is a Victorian mansion

**He gotten away in a stolen Ford Fiesta Zetec with no number plates and was caught when the owner of Sole Mate in Pontmorlais recognised his distinctive camel hair shoes.

Photo of KG Miles

BIO: KG Miles is a writer based in South Wales, a Bob Dylan scholar and the author of the bestselling ‘Troubadour Tales’ series of books. His poetry has been published in Seventh Quarry Press in Wales, Drawn To The Light in Ireland, the Salo Press journal, Pissoir in England and Hobart Pulp, Blood + Honey and Roi Faineant in the US. The poetry is a mix of personal and borrowed, drawing from TV, film and other media born of a council estate education in front of a screen,eating food from a tin. Described by Garielle Lutz as ‘tonically original poems’.