Another Lost Year at Best
written by: John Grochalski
@JohnGrochalski
another lost year at best
passing the closed down bar
where i used to hungrily pour down beer
passing the faces
cloaked in misery and terror
scared shitless in the grocery store
paranoia in aisle nine
talking poetry with the liquor store man
as he rings up my third plastic bottle of vodka this week
sipping booze in rooms
that i’ve since grown to hate
wearing the same clothes for weeks
wearing the same beard of gray
the neighbor upstairs plays her bass
the neighbor next door bangs the wall
looking at pictures online of another lifetime
and trying to recognize myself in them
collecting aches and pains like baseball cards
as an anniversary of dread approaches
and i flip the calendar over
to a new month
in another lost year at best.
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