Slow Drag Blues

I don't believe in sex

after marriage.
---My wife does, just

not with me.
---I plead the Fifth

of whisky. I am close

to perfecting a theory
---of forgettability.

Grief a dog
---that keeps dogging me---

Good Grief,
---I say. It's me

he's teaching to beg---

my next anniversary
---is newspaper, yesterday's---

lining my cage---
---Tomorrow the day

I hope to learn to stay.


by Kevin Young