Bio
Joseph Bullock is a writer, film critic, and photographer from Suffolk, UK. He has had essays published in 3:AM Magazine, PN Review, Film Daze, and One Room With A View. He graduated from Lancaster University in 2022 with an MA in literature and creative writing.
Joseph Bullock
Instructive Measures
Perform a muted stroll. Only the gallop
of drunken lovers and whinnying car alarms
breaks the sun-mottled silence, a sieve
of eucalyptus leaves. Think how easy
it is to get lost. Think cataclysmic Ubers,
listening to The Police at four-am speeding,
the dumb wilt of Sting on a summer morning.
Rust-bitten crowns fit for a hospital's dead.
Piss on fascist steps you saw teenagers vaping on
like history does these things sometimes, like you saw
her frail grasping arms in love surely before leaving.