New Ways With Gin and Sour Defeat

This is the title poem from my most recent collection that was published in 2018 and is available at amazon.com

Sequestered to the back
Of the bar

Where the wallflowers

And the uninvited
Wild things are

Watching the crowd with

My hello kettle

Running a mutual commentary

For our own amusement

Entertaining ourselves as usual

While everyone else

Is entranced by

What's happening on stage

Laughing at the absurdity

Of it all

Including ourselves

Knowing that this is

Our version of

A fine romance

The most we'll ever be

Together

Which is still more 

Than can be said

For the zombie apocalypse

With necks bent downward

That surround us