Liquor Store Poems - Poems about Liquor Store

Is God is watching?

...God is watching you. He is watching me
Whether you are a believer or godless
He is ringing the dinner bell, come home
Heaven's table is crowded with the dead
Stay away a little longer to make roo...

Another Sonnet - Apr 21

...A(nother) (Sh*tty) Sonnet

Cute girl who works the local liquor store
counter, I wonder sometimes how I strike
you.—am I happy in your eyes?—do you like
to speak, when daily, as a steady chore,
...

Retention Pond

...If displaced, found nowhere, but in water
     of the retention pond,
no longer in V-formation, nowhere
     in the bluest sky,
however, beneath and at the behest
     of angels, ruled b...

Changing Channels

...Happy Hour is one drink short
of a buzz.
She’s found her remote
it was in the back of her mind
where remoteness begins.

It’s been a tough year so far
what with all this
apocalyptic  going on...

Cantina Tina

...Cantina Tina never met one meaner
Though she sure looked pretty as the night grew long;
And so did I, in the mirror of the john.
Bottom of the bottle is where the grass is greener.

A Skid Row g...

Whiskey, Women, and Song

...A young man, barely twenty-one,
On the town in search of fun.
The wrong side of the railroad track
And somehow never made it back.

A pickup truck, a black guitar…
I thought that they would tak...

Christmas Cheer

...T'was the night before Christmas and through the beer store
folks were procuring Christmas cheer by the score.
They came from near and far to get bottles of rum
to make yummy eggnog and to its ple...

For One Night, Only

...
Let’s not even swap names,
just live in the now, with no strings, no stakes.
Hold me close, but loose enough to let go.
Come sunrise, I will be just a whisper in your memory.

Let’s hit the li...

Night Terrors

...As I awakened to the night terrors again it's 3am. I know I'm being monitored in my own home Ciro Gargano installs cameras to watch my every movement in order to know when I write in my journal he br...

Chasing Clouds Out Of His Bleary Sky

...The unbearable grief he never wished for or imagined
made him a secluded man shunning all Humanity;
he clung to a feeble breath so void of each certainty,
telling himself he had to fight harder an...

Con-events

...This just in from our local news team:


     A nun was detained by two students after class and forced
to drink a dry martini.

    The students, John Peterson and Shirley Kemper
(who wish to...

More or Less

...Les Moore went down to the liquor store

But then wound up passed out on the floor

He woke Gin anointed

And guite disappointed 

So I guess you might say less is more...

Window Pain

...Three states
in five hours.
Maybe we’ll stop somewhere nice
like a KOA campground.
A kid can hope. It’s hot and it would be great to go for a swim. Instead we stop at the liquor store,
dad buys ...

Get What You Can

...At nights we’d sit out on the balcony drinkin
Breathin
That thick mug air
Of a New Orleans summer evening.
Livin as easy
As they’d let us
In the bowels of the Irish Channel
Where magnolias blo...

Thank God the Weekend's Over

...“Thank God the Weekend’s Over”
©2021 Jerry Brotherton

It’s time to get up and go to work, that old alarm clock said.
It’s Monday and I still have her, rolling around in my head.
It’s six o’cloc...

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