Unconventional but also a privileged beginning; a private education and a natural gift for art; in his mid teens he spent 2 years in hospital after his older and bigger brother had attacked him fracturing his spine and smashing his ribcage and losing a lung and he became addicted to morphine and opiates and later heroin and he graduated with high honours in art and art history and I love him and now he deals pot and grass and he no longer makes art, he talks about art, he talks about making art but he never does and his deals are mostly undercut and shitty and he is full of bullshit and he talks of artists and movies and photography and physics literature and music and botany and ornithology and anything you can talk of like he is the final authority upon the subject but mostly he talks bullshit and cuts shitty deals all through a warm and gentle and cheating and treacherous and beautiful smile.
Bio: John D Robinson was born in 63 in the UK; his work has appeared widely in the small press and online literary journals including; Rusty Truck; Red Fez; BoySlut; Outsider Poetry; The Beatnik Cowboy; Yellow Mama; In Between Hangovers; Hobo Camp review; Eunoia Review; Zombie Logic Review; Bold Monkey; Napalm and Novocain;and he is a contributor to the 2016 48th Street Press Broadside Series; he is married with 1 daughter, 2 grandchildren, 3 cats, 1 dog and he likes to drink wine whilst listening to solitude.