Author name: Rattle

Poems

Every Drunk Has a Passport

Here they come, stumbling down the sidewalk two by two, masses of hammered college kids puked out of the bars on the Tennessee Street strip after last call. And it’s not the sight of them that gets to me as I stand in my boxer shorts watching their bumbling migration from the balcony of my apartment; it’s the sound as I’m yearning to sleep off the iron-legged stress of a hard-fought double at the restaurant, the fuck yous yelled at the top of smoked-through lungs, the punches itching to be thrown, revving up in the glamour boys’ well-exercised beer muscles, the shrill come-ons screaming from deep in the exposed chests of scores of girls who received

Poems

Repairman

The parents had called him to take a look at their twelve-year-old, Mikey, because the school had said that unless

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