2010
06.22
06.22
(Like many artists, writers, and creative geniuses, I have tons of unpublished material filling up binders, boxes, folders, and file cabinets. These vary from ideas to notions to poems to half-written stories. Every once in a while, I’m going to dust one off and publish it here. This is Part 1 of a two part poem written in 2002.)
Gotta keep running
Lead the fugitive’s life
On the lam
Can’t tell me what to do
Can’t change me
Jimmie and Frankie
Great guys
Sprung me from the joint
Into the cold night air
I’m gonna run to the other side of town
The rundown bar
Belly up
Holler for a brew
Barley and hops never tasted so good
I needed this for a long time
Couldn’t drink in the joint
Part of the punishment
Cheers to Freedom
and to hell with Alcoholics Anonymous
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