they can’t all be Picassos. by. J. Lester Allen

sometimes

you just have to tell it

like it is,

drink it down

straight,

stare your enemy

in the eye,

kiss a girl half your age

on the mouth,

ring the bell

once for every fool

in the room

then get the hell 

out of 

there.

J. Lester Allen is an American writer and poet. Originally hailing from the Central Pennsylvania region, he currently calls the waterfall rich holler of Ludlowville, NY home. He published his first collection of poems, The Days Carnivore, in 2008 and has since published 3 other collections of poetry and short fiction, most notably This Is a Land of Wolves Now (Kung Fu Treachery 2019).