Nirvana by Terrence Sykes

I was sipping beer
in my water bottle 
to cure a Saturday hangover
too early on Sunday morning 
 
all the stores were still closed 
but I reached nirvana
at the local boarded up
suburban shopping strip

Terrence Sykes is a GASP Gay Alcoholic Southern Poet & was born and raised in the rural coal mining area of Virginia.  Although he is a far better cook &  gardener – his  poetry - photography - flash fiction has been published in India, Mauritius,Scotland, Spain and the USA. ..Other interests include heirloom vegetable research & foraging wild edibles .