Five Short Ones

Under this whiskey hat

all my stories

waiting for grandchildren

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porcupine moon

& one 

unlucky dog

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we called her Suzie zit-tit

but no one thought of pimples

when she sucked

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ten beers

& still no

better angels

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bags of sorrow

every woman

every man

    --- Bart Solarczyk