Healing Drunk By George Gad Economou

late nights with half-empty

bottles of bourbon and rye, full ashtrays,

and lingering clouds of smoke; healing nights

for the aching soul, as memories are

dug up, buried emotions mimic Romero’s zombies and

push their arms through the dirt, and

words flow like a tidal wave ready to inundate a continent.

in these nights hide the heightened feelings, the grandiloquent

pieces of work that may one day immortalize somebody.

late nights engulfed by alcoholic fumes and stale blue smoke

as the city dies down, flames go up, and the madness

is cranked up to homicidal levels.

George Gad Economou has a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Science, currently works as a freelance writer, and has published three novels and two poetry collections, with the latest being his horror novel, The Lair of Sinful Angels (Translucent Eyes Press). His words have also appeared in Spillwords Press, Ariel Chart, Cajun Mutt Press, Fixator Press, Horror Sleaze Trash, Outcast Press, The Piker Press, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Rye Whiskey Review, and Modern Drunkard Magazine.