The humidity has taken
the too cool for school
of the city as hostages,
head to toe in a simmering
sweat too exhausted to dry.
I stagger to a stranger and ask,
lisping through lips of sandpaper,
if there’s a tavern nearby with A/C
where a rotund iceman with anthracite
eyes, carrot nose, who knows when
to button it and bend the twig,
can pour me a cold tall one or two.
the too cool for school
of the city as hostages,
head to toe in a simmering
sweat too exhausted to dry.
I stagger to a stranger and ask,
lisping through lips of sandpaper,
if there’s a tavern nearby with A/C
where a rotund iceman with anthracite
eyes, carrot nose, who knows when
to button it and bend the twig,
can pour me a cold tall one or two.
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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