a drunken heart
for $8.99 i can
make it hurt a little lessi can give the
cashier a ten and
they’ll give me a
handful of change and
a bottleand i can
go home
maybe put on fucking
pomp and circumstance
or
something,
anything
loudand i can lose all
my humor,
my
capacity for bullshiti can lose
myself,
you—whatever you’ve got





