Looking for a lady
to shake my world
like a James Bond
martini in a tiki bar
by the sea only
to get my shoe caught
on a runaway carousel
on the amusement
pier till the EMT
finds me a handful
of drinks past drunk,
naked and fire engine
red in a fetal position
on the beach,
ego and wallet
pilfered as I suck
on a thumb’s
down like feasting
on a mermaid’s
nipple in the sand.
Tony Pena was selected as 2017-2018 Poet Laureate for the city of Beacon, New York.
A new volume of poetry and flash fiction, "Blood and Beats and Rock n Roll," is available now at Amazon. He also has a self published chapbook, "Opening night in Gehenna." His publication credits include “Chronogram,” "Dogzplot," "Gutter Eloquence," “Hudson Valley Transmitter,” "Red Fez," "Slipstream," "Underground Voices," "Zygote in my Coffee," and others.
Colorful compositions and caterwauling with a couple of chords can be seen at:
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