Some swipe shit under heavy rugs.
Men beat in mania, corruption and
disruption.
Secrets are the way of the earth -
Little fragments of ourselves are
held back from a world already in
so much pain.
John McMahon is a poet who lives with his wife and daughter in Scotland in sunny Dumbarton. He has been writing for about 20 years; he has bipolar and it is his main source of therapy. He has been published in a few magazines and anthologies and won a couple of competitions.