Three Mickey’s 40s
two in the fridge
one in hand
his back to the kitchen window
Murphy bed vertical
Travis Bickle moon
shit’s going to get ugly
in one to four hours
on his way upstairs
neighbor lady said
maybe tomorrow will be better
he has no idea
what awaits him tonight
from the snake pit
to the shore
Douglas Richardson lives in Santa Ana, California, with his wife Jen and cat Wes. His poetry has been published in The American Journal of Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, Black Poppy Review, Cajun Mutt Press, The Ekphrastic Review, Hobo Camp Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Medusa’s Kitchen, The Nervous Breakdown, The New Verse News, Straight Forward Poetry, Trouvaille Review, Poetry Super Highway, and others. In 2013, he won the Poetry Super Highway contest with his entry, “Notes from the Graveyard Shift.”
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