Betty-Jean by Alan Parry

you sit there

and tell me

in that

tender/inimitable

song of yours

that

our day will come

and

i believe

you

Alan Parry is an independent playwright and an avid reader of modern poetry and form that eschews the rules of the established literary canon. Most recently, he has been published in Black Bough Poems. He is a content writer for pro-LGBT+ and BAME pop-culture website based in Liverpool called Planet Slop.