Charlie Baylis

i wasted the best years of my life 

making breakfast for chelsey minnis, making lunch for chelsey minnis

making dinner for chelsey minnis

while she wrote poetry 

she was as pink as most people who are pink

she threw a cabbage at me

for coming home late from the supermarket

she threw a turkey at me

for buying the cheapest beer in the supermarket

& chucked it down the sink

i had a handful of dreams

i hid them from chelsey minnis until the day they came true

those were the best years of my life

the last thing i want is sympathy

is from Nottingham, England. He is the Editor of Anthropocene, the Poetry Editor of Review 31 and the Chief Editorial Advisor of Broken Sleep Books. His poetry has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and once for the Forward Prize. His most recent publication is Swimming (the Red Ceiling Press). He spends his spare time completely adrift of reality.