”Drinkin’ Thinkin’” by: rob kistner © 1997
DayBreaker
(hard-drinkin’, jazz-lovin’, workin’ man’s lament)
~
day breaks
on
a new week’s
sun
putrid
as the stains
on my
flesh-soaked
mattress
damp
as my sour
mat
of fevered
greasy
tangle
hot
as my
whiskey-foul
breath
another
un-commuted
sentence
6A-6P
’til
merciful dusk
delivers me
jack-knifed
into
my
jack and coke
don’t obsess
in sorrow
drown
all
‘da-way
down
a bottom-dive
to comatose
no virtue
feigned
nor
implied
mad goes
the struggle
‘til
saved by
jazz
48 over
‘da
dub-ya
hump
2
debauched
24’s
then
the hissing
sting
of monday
and
the mindless
6-6 grind
120 n’out
cruel numbers
game
goes
round round
and ever round
’til
the tombstone’s
tender
solace
~ ~ ~
rob kistner © 2019