Closing Time



it was a bad night
and today is a vary bad day-
Sunday

hangover
shaking hand
pain

and I try to listen to Wagner and
Carl Orff
but it doesn’t help
and I try to watch Brando in
Apocalypse now but it’s useless
and I try to read Hemingway
but it’s no help at all

just an endless day

outside
the little girl laughs
and the boys smile

and the sun looks to me
like an enemy.