GORDON DISLEY - POEMS

Gordon Disley is a writer, musician, comedian based in Montreal Quebec. He has been alive for fifty three years and writing poetry for about a 

third of that time. Consider him entirely approachable but keep your hands and feet away from his face should he be eating curry of any kind. 

Good luck!

​python

she sleeps beside you
every night all
twelve coiled feet
yellow eyes on gem red flannel


then
she stops eating
            saving room
                        for you.
​

drink menu

BOURBON: drink of killers


TEQUILA: for tourists and celebrants


RUM: for sailors, whalers and islanders


VODKA: for farmers and prostitutes of all sexes


GIN: tipple of gamblers, pickpockets and cons


WINE: poison of actors, players and soothsayers


ABSINTHE: semen of God drunk by Gypsy Women of Midnight


                                 channelling horror so we may all sleep like cherubim.


what can i get you?           

pavement

black s.u.v.
         parked
on
purple chalk


         hop scotch.