Corridors

By Cliff Britten

These poems are modern day classics and make you see the world we live in with the fresh energy of the young but the age and experience of the wise, a heady combination in this accidental sage.

Therefore this second collection is entitled Corridors. It is a journey through the veins of this writer, as he reveals the darker side of the human condition, unashamedly naked, open, pulsing, a techno beat of feelings connecting head with heart via waves of pathways.

Corridors is an invitation to make your heart miss a beat.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jan 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781467877459

Cliff Britten

Clifford Britten is a writer and poet who has travelled, raved, danced, drank, experimented, loved and embraced life as a South London philosopher whose perceptions enable him to create poems which strike at the heart of the urban soul. He writes in a manner which is stark, pithy, modernist, shocking, funny and beautiful taking care to reveal the truth and time after time flip the truth over to the other side of truths coin.

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Corridors

Poems and prose by

Cliff Britten

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© 2012 by Cliff Britten. All rights reserved.

Inside art illustrations and front cover photograph by Clifford Britten

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First published by AuthorHouse 01/06/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4678-7746-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4678-7745-9 (ebk)

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Contents

Gift

Magnitude 9

Amazon in space

Bag lady

Brittle

Confusion

Daddy dearest

Rock

Trust me

Madman

Good days

Settle the Tab

Mount Pleasant

Do you like my shoes?

The need

Sleep

Last poem of sorts

Therapy

Summer Time

The Witch

Sailor

Rules

The boot wearer

It’s so bad

Woman act

Question

Totem Pole

6-15 pm

I am London

Boredom

Devil of a decision

Girls I knew

Watchmen

Flower

Don’t worry

Living

Thinking

Phone call

Comedown

Prop

Entrenched

Night Visitor

Physicality

The speed of life

Warning

Register

Velux

The Bell

Ketamine

Dylan

Sometimes

To write

In Chicago

Meeting

Showtime

Kiln

Balloon

Snow

Babies and Nazis

Are you okay?

The lonely mask

Shortlist

Incongruous

10-second symmetry

This book is dedicated to all the people who have listened

to my poems, over the phone and in private conversations. It is

thanks to their encouragement and help that this book exists.

All I ever wanted and all I ever hoped for was just one of

my poems to touch a nerve.

There may well be happy endings but they all stem from

sad beginnings.

Gift

We have fallen in love

You and I

And as a token of this

I offer you