The suit was too tight.

There was no air, his mouth dry like sandpaper.

The press looked at him like he had done something wrong, taking pictures and writing notes for headlines he could not respond to.

But he knew that when he got there, he wouldn’t have to care.

Dominic Bond has tried to write poetry among other things and have been published online on and in print in Driftwood Press, Poetry Birmingham and Kallisto Gaia magazines.