They seem
so young to
have sensed
the
totality
of defeat,
sitting in
waning sun-
light,
sipping
Long
Island Ice
Teas,
exchanging
binding
Hemlock
Society
vows,
sisters of
the blood
now that an
unbearable
lightness
of being had
become
their
lives,
their Fate,
sealed by
alcohol
and smoke
rings
hands
linked,
"Since
you're
going to
hell
I'll come too
and we can
hang out
together."
From where
they
were now, there
was no looking
back.
Rabid Raccoon
3
Seagram's 7, pure essence of
liquid nicotine
splash of
7Up
It's just like in
the movies, you
know
the one with
those
mise en scene
repeated
throughout,
slight
variations thrown
in
so that you know
its
a different day
but
the same old same
old
only worse, an
altered
state of dream
sequencing
all the way back
to
the 50's, this
guy's
Marlboro
Bogarted
at the corner of his
mouth, never
leaving
the lips 'til the
filter
begins to burn or
he
bends to use the
drink
sipper to drain the
first
of five 77's in a half
hour,
half a pack
smoked,
nary a word
spoken
after the initial
please
and thank you to
your
inquiries and
service,
his silences so
deep
and intense one
of
the customers
feels
compelled to
ask,
"When he's
not
swallowing
Canadian
whiskies, what's
his
other hobby,
serial
killing?"
"I'm not sure
but
if I were
booking
a room in an
isolated
Adirondack Park
Hotel
and he's the
guy
handing me the
register
I'm camping
outdoors
no matter what
the
weather's
like."
Brain Storm
11/2 ounce of Irish
Whiskey
1 oz Dry
Vermouth
liberal dash of
Benedictine
From where I
was
standing, what
he
called having
the
constitution of
a
horse, nothing
phases
me or I can
drink
as much as of
that
stuff as I
want
and not feel a
thing,
I've never been
drunk
in my life,
sounded
like one of
those
myths we live
by
or like an idea
that
got stuck to the
fly
paper pasted
to
the top of his
brain
that wouldn't
come
unstuck no
matter
how hard
you
pulled like I
was
now, tugging on
his
arms, trying
to
motivate his
body
into
something
like an
upright
position so
it
could be
shuffled
out the door
into a
waiting,
obliging
vehicle
of
conveyance.
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