Lewis Buxton
A good husband always has a zombie plan
cricket bats and local army reserve units,
bottle neck points and axe throwing workshops,
supermarkets, shopping cities, radio transmitters.
A good husband will have thought of it all.
He’ll have his outfit sorted: walking boots
and a warm coat that still allows scything movements
with the arms for successful decapitation.
He’ll have done wilderness workshops and practiced
living off grid. His Instagram will be full of survival tips,
draining urine through a sock like a cocktail mixer
at a dinner party. Over coffee he will tell you
where the nearest escape route is, how to survive
through winter, what to do with the kids. Today,
he is clean shaven, but he is prepared to grow
a beard for the occasion of the apocalypse.
Lewis Buxton’s work has appeared in The Poetry Review, The Rialto, and The Independent and won the Winchester Poetry Prize. His first collection Boy in Various Poses (2021) was published by Nine Arches Press.
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