{"product_id":"i-saw-the-shotgun-coming","title":"I Saw The Shotgun Coming","description":"\u003cp\u003eI Saw the Shotgun Coming is a collection of poems and short pieces written between 1998 and 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCovering the minuitae of daily life in the twenty first century, there are musings on life, love and existential angst; of office talk, insomnia, the origins of God from the Cavemen, the London Riots, the young and the damned; as well as observations from the heart of the coffee shop and the world both outside and inside that passes us all by.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded are the prose poem Standing Beside You in the Rain, a previously unpublished account of a boy at the bus stop with his parents waiting for the last bus home; Michael a short story where our main protagonist deals with the sight of his mother upset on his bed, with God dressed as a pimp coming to his aid; and Box of Kittens where the notion that all secrets, good or bad, come in boxes.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin these pages, we find it is not necessarily the world outside where the shotgun is being pointed but often it is us holding it at  ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44214507700385,"sku":"9780956752734","price":24.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1peekpdm-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1713640455","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/i-saw-the-shotgun-coming","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}