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Poetry of Issue 9: A Junky Ending

A Junky Ending

Staring through a sea of grey topcoats with no features

Wanting a moment of silence, a cold one, a warm one, or no one…

You proceed to the agreed upon corner

Shaking hands with someone you don’t know,

Retrieved is the baggy of indiscriminate relief

Like a pinball machine, you go off, lit up.

                                                                     The one day you are too much

                                                                        Taking one dose too many,

Frothing at the mouth

Doing the no doze Charlie on Delancey street

Gyrations to a sun god that has betrayed you so many times.

Fornicating with myself in the Port Authority restroom

That’s how I wanted to be remembered,

Just how I lived.

Joe Sonnenblick

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