he's drunk and
liquor-silly
sitting somewhere
baked as a cheesecake
and giggling like a little boy
in a dark corner bar.
One can only hope
he sobers up enough
to wander outside
into the fading sunlight
long enough for me
to stumble by giddy
and starving
on a quest
to fill empty bellies.
Maybe we fill
hungry hearts, too.
Cherie Madigan is a professor of English at Heartland Community College, in Normal, Illinois; she lives 45 minutes southwest of Normal... Her work has been published in Dragon Poet Review, Labor: Studies in Working Class History, and Poetry Breakfast.
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