Friday, March 7, 2008

thirty seven dollars

in my account I have thirty seven dollars.
a few pennies more.

I have a date, we will wander around the streets of center square.

She has a bottle of bourbon and a sense of charity.

I have a few remaining wits about me, and twenty eight years.


round sixteen (boxing analogies are tired, are they not?) the shortest straw, the camel's dead, and I'm inscribed by the remnants.