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Ryan P Kinney Dec 2015
by J.M. Romig, Ryan P. Kinney, Morgann Blackwood, and Aaron Kasunic

Here’s to vices and virtues
To living without apologies or regrets
To breaking in order to heal

This old bird no longer caged
She gets to look on the other side of the bars this time
He gets another stumble in the hallway
A headfirst dive into a bottle of pills

Purple sharks and goats
That glow in the dark
Banana dimpled belugas
Swimming wildly asunder

Then I met God
The most beautiful of all my conquests
I knew no one else would quite match up to her

Her hair in the porch light
Looked like the thunder god had an ******

Her face still cannot be manifest
This woman,
The most beautiful thing I’ve seen
She lingers in my conscious
And has a major role to play in what will be my swan song

If experience has taught me anything (an unlikely assumption)
It is that if a woman ever tells you
-Straight up-
That she is a *****
She is not lying

There are exceptions to that rule
As I myself am quite exceptional
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Sully Sep 2014
I
Little glass soldiers
and their ranks swell
they fall in lockstep, clacking on the tabletop
and how many, I can't tell

Notes over the air
Loud enough to force a pair
Who want to talk
A little closer together

To be completely forthright
I have this kind of insight
somewhere between seldom
and never

I couldn't say, now, why I came
Except to watch the people dance
but from the corner, a loaded glance
and I forget my name

And I forget my name.

I
I have to look away
and I
Haven't got the faintest notion why I feel this way but I
I
I'll bet I say something wrong and all dutch courage gone and maybe I should stand and go or risk letting my strangeness show and staring at the bartop wood and didn't notice when she stood and heart is ramming through my chest and barely felt her light caress and eyes **** up to catch a dark pair staring back at me and I
I
Forget
There's only her
And she's smiling back.
The best way to get over social anxiety is to realize that everybody gets it sometimes. Every time I get to know someone pretty well I say to myself: 'Wow, you're not nearly as confident as you try to show the world.'.
Keith W Fletcher Jun 2016
Tired
Uninspired
I just quit my job
Before I could get fired
Just five past four now
On this scorching hot afternoon
Simply can't go home yet
Just way too soon
So a drink ... maybe
I think
To maybe help expand my horizons
That I seem to have allowed to shrink

I'm so tired
Simply uninspired
Constantly sinking into this morass Where I find I'm firmly mired
Then passing by I noticed
Just three cars
In the sports bar parking lot
What the hell!?
So I turned in
Taking a spot
Making it four
Braving the oppressive heat
As I quickly strolled the 40 feet
Before stepping through the doors
I had to grin
Realizing all the possible spin
To be made of this place
That had been named SCORES
A couple huddled in the corner
Deep in whispered conspiratorial liaison
So I left them to their Solitude
Taking a spot at the bar
Feeling that more fit my mood

As I was approaching the brink of my third drink
I pause to take a look around
Three stools down
The man seems to be determinedly bound
  To drill his glass into the bartop
As he kept spinning it round and round and round
Oblivious it appeared to me to any exterior reality
Then suddenly his eyes erupted
Free flowing tears falling Unencumbered
To splatter on the bar top
Only coming to a stop
When he raised his glass in a clenched fist
Saying "here's to you brother.... you will be missed "
Then he downed his drink
Indicating to the bar keep that he would have another
Then he turned his head my way  
Looking me straight in the eye
Simply saying "Hi"
Pausing before saying
"Sorry if I disturbed you"
I sort of shook my head  
Really ... what else could I have said
He nodded
As he pulled his vision back
Attaching it to the TV on the wall
So  before he went back inside
I spend a dimes worth of my humanity  
By saying "you ok" question/ statement
You know what I mean
Niether one nor the other (somewhere in between )
His eyes never left the TV
As this glass ...again was drilling away Really spinning
As the5 o'clock news was just beginning Finally I heard him say very very quietly "bad day "
a statement NOT a question
"Me too" I said
It was in that looming silence
That the news story caught my attention

"Earlier today police responded "said the anchor
"To what may be more heat driven tensions..as they received a man with a gun call..we have Mike Roberts with the story"

" Yes Greg . I'm still here on Columbus avenue where around noon today A man we now know was Brandon Day
Ex Marine with four tours of Iraq and Afghanistan
Came to the home of his ex wife and refusing to leave..without seeing his four year old son.
When the police arrived mr. Day refused to obey their commands
Going so far to even produce what we now know was an empty gun
But when he raised it...well here's how it all played out as the situation eroded... Let me warn you just video is quite graphic.

"PUT THE GUN DOWN AND DROP TO YOUR KNEES"

The man on the porch turn away from the door seemingly unconcerned as he advanced toward the cops

"FREEZE"

The police spokesman reports that Mr.Day died at the scene of multiple..
At this time efforts are under way to..

Next to me the man raised his class "bye bye brother " he said downing his drink as he stood
"see what I mean" he said... his face showed no hint of strain or pain
"That was....YOUR BROTHER? "
"Yeah he said" I was there to see if I could help"
  A half smile crossed his face moving like a fast cloud shadow on the ground.

"You got to admit. He really knew how to die... he just didn't know how to live"
With that he turned away and was gone.

I had myself another drink
My bad day ...He'll no.
I don't even know what to think! ***!
Duke Thompson Oct 2014
collapsing on bartop bar stool reverie
old home away from home
warms cold bones
old ocean growing
swells inside me
forgetting there was ever an ebb
henry miller's dream of paris
is alive and well
walking thru streets of debauched
tradition
a place where people still remember
how to live without shame in sin
as if the simple act of being is enough
to curb fire in belly hunger
susan May 2015
why can't i stay captivated by someone
     longer
why does my interest fade

   starting slowly
      then speeding up and becoming
imperceptible

their voice becomes
blah        blah
        blah        blah
           blah

their face begins to blur
i keep blinking my eyes
to try and bring them back in focus
but it doesn't happen

they melt into the background
   becoming a chair
     the bartop
         a glass of beer
        a door
it's all the same

they're the same

    as everyone else
nothing special anymore

just another boring combination of oxygen, carbon,
hydrogen, nitrogen,
calcium, & phosphorus
(i looked it up, that's 95% of what makes up the human body)

              no more mental stimulation
                          the initial excitement is gone

and i am bored yawn

once again.
Joy Oct 2017
You were sitting there,
Golden like a goddess,
With your eyes wagging lazily
Between the clutter and clatter of
Four jagged edges that made up
One sticky bartop.

The piano bounced in heavy thumps and steps
Like six inch heels
On a graceless girl
Who is dragged through the streets
Only by the sweet bait
Of a lover's giggle
To a hotel room that feels
A lot like home.

Your hands and face and eyes
Are pink as they pick through the pile,
Slotting in and out of Coach and Lucky
For a little black dress.
The thinning hallway smells like burnt cigarettes
And used condoms.

Arms folded like laundry,
Hair falling like linen,
I can smell the Coco and pushed out ahs
Fogging up my sight, dizzying and sultry,
As you dive beneath what feels like a thousand white sheets.
Sticky, wire-lashes sink
Under mountain-high, colored-cotton threads.

Your eyes are the glow of a casino.
You look right at me,
And I've won the lottery.
October, 2017
Cruel summer in viscous reds and pinks; wine stains,
sweating cans, margaritas in plastic cups,
everything pulsing on a sticky dance floor and sad.
Screaming and flirting with the easy and the lost as the sun drags bodies
to a place where hearts are haggard and hungry,
where the hunted steer to survive.

Cruel summer in tangerine-dream and traffic-light-greens,
the slant of bruising metals, the hollow of a hollow,
hot-hopes of the blue of blue and more blue.
A polite laugh, a memory’s memory, a wish on a still-burning candle.
I’m nothing if not a witness to superstition and the way faith tastes like fear.
I’m everything if I play my cards right.

I’m roving about;
a derelict architect, a soul with someone else's name carved across it.
I’m in and out of the city,
in and out of the conversation.
I’m in and out of his vision like suspicion-
he walks past our claw marks on corners and song-scratched streets,
he looks at the city and the city looks back, and he thinks of me.
Planted and planned and made to be.

Cruel summer in jaundiced yellows and mauves,
the pain of​​ the sun on shoulder and bottle,
the ache of a smile and a lie on lips.
His hands on my waist, my mind in a hot room,
my glint swimming in his eyes,
his voice snared between my sharp, sharp teeth.

Cruel summer in grimy greens and stained-glass jewels dripping
another bartop, another night where just friends melt and merge,
another morning spent tangled and giggling,
like all of this exists to see each other smile.
Like this wasn’t a dutiful ritual and a route to ruin.
Like it wasn’t the most marvelous game to play.

Cruel summer in royal purples and gold beading, holding his hand and my tongue,
meeting the train with a sinking chest and a straightened spine.
Another kiss before I hop the turnstile.
Another three months wracking and whirling;
cursing his hands, howling the night, willing him to pitch me the ball.
Just waiting for cruel summer to bloom in shades of blue,
beaming because cruel summer doesn’t lose.
June 2023

— The End —