Introduction

Hello, my name is Tom Ashton.
I'm a third year Creative Writing student, co-head editor of the creative writing magazine 'The Writer's Quibble' and an aspiring author.
Mostly, I write transgressive fiction with elements of dark humour but i've also been known to write horror, thriller and fantasy. I'm also technically a published poet.
Furthermore, I recently a received a 'First' for a radio script I wrote, which has encouraged me to experiment in different areas.
On this blog you can expect to find my opinion columns, essays and reports as well as poetry and lots of prose.

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Tom Ashton

Saturday, December 7, 2013

'Stupid' by Tom Ashton (poem)

'Stupid'

“Finish your sentence!” Teacher had yelled, “Have the time in mind!”
Pens had begun falling but I’d still been a page behind

Scribbled faster, gotten desperate, my fingers had begun to tremble
Teacher had said: “The doodles of a chimp” my handwriting could resemble

“Sir, my hands shake, my muscles ache.” Teacher yelled ‘For goodness sake!’

He’d snatched away my paper, ‘A stupid boy you’ll always be!’
And now I’m slating his prediction from University.

Daniel Radcliffe: talentless.
George Orwell: couldn’t write.
And as for Albert Einstein, I’ll bet his IQ was shite.

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This is a further rewrite of 'Dyspraxia is not the end', a poem I wrote in 2012, which was published in 'Dyspraxia News', a publication by the 'Dyspraxia Foundation'.
A previous draft can be found here: http://thattomashton.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/dyspraxia-poem.html?m=1
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