Site Masthead: Nick's Place in non-serif white text superimposed over a bright orange high contrast tinted photograph of a brick wall taken in an extreme close up. The brick is photographed with the long continuous lines of grout running vertically. The image is displayed upside-down so the disappearing point for the grout is below the image.

Nick's Place

Nick's Place: Untitled

Dirge

A Final Dirge

I didn't know what to think,

When the coroner signed it with ink

I couldn't believe that my brother was dead,

Shot twice in the head.

I really cried.

I wish I had died.

What do I think?

Why do you ask?

Most think it was me wearing a mask.

But, this I know,

I didn't kill him!

Your making the same mistake again.

A zap was all they heard.

-Nicholas Barnard