Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Charles A Perrone

three thoughts about what to drink:


festive red wine night

I deserve the very best

and so shall it be


Coffee tea or be

a new liquid still unknown

to those who imbibe


ten empty beer cans

now adorning the gutter

weekend has begun



Getting My Act Together


Aha! it did come to pass that the one last chalice

of wine made redder with my very own blood

should be shattered by a straying bullet shot

from a hard-bottomed glass pilfered in turn

at a local bar and grill without legal license

nor any certain geographical orientation

as line by line all the contents dispersed

while patrons went to exchange names

with diminishing returns and dreams

of future investment dancing with

the remaining customers whose

notions of reduction rode the

waves of praise and doubt

full of foam and groans

caused by subtraction

or by simply looking

at the edge of cliffs

over which some

might fall soon

or some later

rather than

at the end

of a fray

left to

drink

ante

and

an

A




Tonight I reject fright and might even have a drink

on account of our discoveries of treasure troves of

sound archives related to youthful adventures over

at the dreamy inns downtown destined to defer to

the deleterious designs of all profit-driven projects

propelling development and expansion at all costs

with no regard for the soul-saving noise needed to

make way for people-oriented spaces and decisions

about the dominions and realms and headquarters

of totally new corporations sans old-school values...


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