Sunset Dinner
[///
I would tell him,
but he hunkered
down in his bunker,
debriefing
with one-thousand-caliber cans of beer.
He rationed himself,
confidentially,
to every Bud.
Every friend
poured from their head-wound
deafening - distinctive - gurgles.
///]
(…
I dine at a wide clay table -
face the gold-red wall.
I serve myself a setting yolk -
season it with salt.
I eat my meal, and quickly-
forbid the air its warmth.
I stuff myself with sunset;
starved in bed, I bawl
as dusk, so kind, wraps leftovers
for tomorrow evening’s gall
…)
He (like the day) has set;
sunsets taste – different –
Copyright © Andrew Gallagher | Year Posted 2008
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