Sunday Afternoon Drunk

by | Nov 15, 2011 | Poetry

The sign advertises truck parking,
and the place smells like smoke.

A woman in a black leather vest
is arm-wrestling a shirtless toothpick.

The shirtless toothpick
is complaining about foul play

but after a second defeat
he hands over twenty dollars.

The bartender says, “Another?”
and everyone at the bar nods.

 

 

 

 
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About The Author

Dave Newman

Dave Newman is the author of the novel Please Don’t Shoot Anyone Tonight (World Parade Books). His new novel Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children is forthcoming from Writers Tribe Books in February 2012. He lives in Trafford, Pennsylvania.