the cop asked me
if it was an open beer
in my hand
that i was drinking
I told him
I must have mistaken
Bud Light for Pepsi,
both blue cans
he let me go after
confiscating my weed
and pouring
my blue courage
into the gutter.
KEVIN RIDGEWAY lives and writes in Long Beach, CA. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slipstream, Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, San Pedro River Review, The Cape Rock, Spillway, Up the River, Suisun Valley Review, KYSO Flash, Home Planet News, Cultural Weekly, Big Hammer, Misfit Magazineand So it Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. He is the author of six chapbooks of poetry. His latest book, A Ludicrous Split, He also has a collaboration with fellow poet Gabriel Ricard, available from Alien Buddha Press.
He also has a new book out with Spartan Press.
check it out and get yourself a copy today.
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