Stephen Philip Druce is a published poet and comedy writer from Shrewsbury in England. He is currently published with magazines - Locust, Muse Literary Journal, Bad Scents Of Humour, Spokes, Pulsar, The Inconsequential, Bareback Literature, Century 121, The Right Place At The Right Time, Fade, Art Villa, and Hermes.

Stephen Philip Druce

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The Bird Man

He talked to himself - softly
but openly, and with crooked finger
he pointed skywards - imitating
a flying bird - moving his hands like wings.

I was glad to watch him because
I wanted him to be right and he was –
there was something flying up there.

He smiled - pleased to be sane enough
to know that birds fly too.