My first night at my new
Apartment in
Davis, I was 20 years old
With a fake ID
I bought a
Six pack of
Coke and a
Bottle of rum
Placed the rum
In the freezer
Until it turned to
Syrup
Then I poured a can of
Coke into a glass
Added the rum syrup
Fired up an
Unfiltered
Camel cigarette
Tasted the acrid
Smoke
On my lips
Felt the
Fire blossom in
My belly
And played the song
“The Passion of Lovers”
By Bauhaus
On my battered
Tape deck
“So this is adulthood,” I told myself.
The poster on the wall read:
Love
Will
Tear
Us
Apart.
The next day
I turned
21
I tottered to the
Cafe Roma
Feeling like
A
God
Alex S. Johnson is a retired English instructor, disability rights activist, author, editor and publisher (Nocturnicorn Books). He is known for his highly unusual poetry style which combines influences from Dada and Surrealism to hip hop, black metal, industrial noise, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman and Rimbaud. His books include the acclaimed collection The Death Jazz, Bureau of Dreams, The Doom Hippies and Bizarrely Departed. His work has appeared in such venues as Horror Sleaze Trash, Black Noise, Bizarro Central and Cease, Cows. His upcoming books include The Junk Merchants 2: A Literary Tribute to William S. Burroughs, featuring a roster of luminaries including Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin Kiernan, John Shirley and the co-founder of the iconic Goth rock band Bauhaus, David J. Haskins. Johnson ilves in Sacramento, California with his family.
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