NICOTINE BARBEQUES
Posted: September 10, 2012 | Author: David Gottfried | Filed under: Aesthetics, POEMS, Psychology | Tags: barbeque, cigarette, nicotine |Leave a comment »
NICOTINE BARBEQUES
The burning embers of a cigarette
Is the closest I get to a barbeque
My parched, impoverished palette
Takes a commodious Catholic view
I’m looking for a smoke at Four A.M.
Insomnia is my only friend
There is no plausible stratagem
To avert inexorable, ugly end
I hate the restraint of my middle age
The dithering wrought by life’s censures
I want to reignite my rage
Belting violence and its pleasures
I want to burn my whole life down
My house, the city’s imprisoning streets
My life, alone, bereft of renown
The bourgeoisie and their cutting conceits
DavidGottfried, Copyright, 2004
