Roy Duffield

Roy Duffield

Roy Duffield is a writer, poet and translator from the working class, and an editor over at Anti-Heroin Chic, a journal that puts those on the outside inside. He is a winner of the Robert Allen Micropoem Contest (2021), was honoured to be chosen to read his work at the 2019 Beat Literary Festival in Barcelona, and his words have recently been spotted entering such nefarious establishments as Into the VoidUntitled: Voices, Flights, and The London Reader's issue on Counterculture. Roy recommends EMERGENCY.

we let it slide
when we got beaten
shitless and you stood idly by,
when you caught the thief
and offered us the once-in-a-life-
time chance to beat
him as he stood tied

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They drove you to the stores
but didn’t let you park
 
They fattened you up on Coca-Cola
but didn’t let you in the bathroom

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