gone By John Grochalski

tonight 

i sit here in this bar

drunk on vodka

and memories

your obituary on my phone

thinking about those nights

of indestructible youth

when we drove around the city aimlessly

sucking on cans of beer

stealing pitchers of beer

swimming in rivers of beer

thinking time was infinite

and that the muse

would forever be

at our

beck and call.

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.