The Incomplete Tim Key, by Tim Key

Tim Key’s quirky, humorous, poems were very enjoyable.
In fact, I had to share them.
I shared them with my cat, Charlie.
Charlie bloody loved them!
He started bringing all the local cats round to hear me read them,
And they all curled up attentively on my floor,
Like a feline Woodstock.
I nearly stopped the readings
When I realised my carpet had become a furry minefield.
I couldn’t though,
Because those cats really held the room together.
Hey ho. ³⁸

³⁸ Nah I chucked them out, but poetic licence and all that. That was my attempt at a pastiche of a Tim Key poem. If you liked it at all, get the book, because it’s full of much, much better poems than this one. They have lots of footnotes like this too, which I was a bit ambivalent about, but that qualm aside, it’s a fantastic collection. [Ryan Agee]