drinking with a friend in the front seat of a car. By John Grochalski

the beer cans

came from the heaven

of blue plastic bags

resting at our feet

and the vodka flowed

like mystic rivers

from a clear plastic jug

as we sat outside a strip mall taco bell

the hunger in our bellies finally satiated

but the hunger in our minds?

not so much.

 John Grochalski is the author of the poetry collections, The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out (Six Gallery Press 2008), Glass City (Low Ghost Press, 2010), In The Year of Everything Dying (Camel Saloon, 2012), Starting with the Last Name Grochalski (Coleridge Street Books, 2014), and The Philosopher’s Ship (Alien Buddha Press, 2018). He is also the author of the novels, The Librarian (Six Gallery Press 2013), and Wine Clerk (Six Gallery Press 2016).  Grochalski currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where the garbage can smell like roses if you wish on it hard enough.