Professional day drunks
and former child stars
unable to find work
congregate well before noon
inside this strip mall gin mill
like it’s a prayer service
Grim faces clinging to faded glory
tell barstool lies to anyone else
punch-drunk on nostalgia
An addict shooting up
in the men’s room
is just as common
as a cheap whore giving head
next to the dumpster out back
Not even the L.A. riots
could keep this place
from opening at six a.m.
Watered-down whiskey
has no curfew
As if the Drawing Room
wasn’t filled with enough sadness,
someone put five dollars worth
of Bob Dylan songs on the juke
Michael N. Thompson likes bacon, cats and fantasy football. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals including Word Riot, Toronto Quarterly and San Pedro River Review. He is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being A Murder Of Crows published by University of Hell Press
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