Charley’s

J V Birch

 

The worry pond bartended daytime

listened to it crime self-improvement whiskies.

 

Girls joked with abandonment

lonely in a cheer to hotel them busy.

 

Today, hope is desperate luck

machines some love hell to glancing fun

 

as smokers house anyone’s reason

to forget a better life.

 

So come, sit, drink, thug more

revenge a weekend memory

 

to champion this deep yelling feeling

make the worry pond companion night home.

 

 

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J V Birch J V Birch lives in Adelaide. Her poems have been published in Australia, the UK, Canada and the US. She has three chapbooks with Ginninderra Press and a full-length collection, more than here. She blogs at www.jvbirch.com .