Dating in the Stoned Age by Tony Pena

Fred and Wilma ain’t got nothing

on Mule and Meg making plans

for some grub and a flick.

 

First, catch the latest Star Wars

a month after premiere, sharing

stale popcorn at the theater 

 

that died as a soft porn house before

reborn like Lazarus as a second run

joint with torn screen and tacky floor.

 

Later, Dick’s Diner ain’t romantic

but if variety is the spice of life,

the selection is sumptuous.

 

A thousand and one sauces

to drench a dry bird and palate

cleanser of watered down RC.

 

And as for the nightcap,

he could yabba dabba do her

for two hours on hot sheets.

 

Mule wonders, as the acrid smoke

and stink of burning weed engulfs

his Nova stranded on the highway,

 

if Meg would’ve come out had

the red rose he stole from Bob’s

gas station been free of blight.

Tony Pena was selected as 2017-2018 Poet Laureate for the city of Beacon, New York. A new volume of poetry and flash fiction, "Blood and Beats and Rock n Roll," is available now at Amazon.  He also has a self published chapbook, "Opening night in Gehenna."  His publication credits include “Chronogram,”  "Dogzplot," "Gutter Eloquence," “Hudson Valley Transmitter,” "Red Fez," "Slipstream,"  "Underground Voices," "Zygote in my Coffee," and others. 

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