Thursday, July 30, 2015

We Who Secretly Somehow Seem Still Alive.


We Who Secretly Somehow Seem Still Alive
by james bezerra


We who
used to
buy PBR
or Seagram
when we wanted to splurge.
We who secretly
knew and loved so very much -
at each 2am -
that one liquor store in town
with the ten-minutes-slow clock.
We who somehow
always needed ice.
Who were hated by our neighbors.
Who sucked every drop of marrow
from each bottle.
We who seem
to have only halfway,
or only temporarily,
properly transitioned
to adulthood.
We who still
hear The Pixies,
The Velvet Underground,
Jeff Buckley maybe,
whenever someone strikes a match.

We who, alive,
miss so dearly
our dead,
of which there are so strangely
so many.

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