Showing posts with label bar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bar. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Closing Time

tonight my cabaret of fears

glowed and hummed.


a band played anxiously in

sharp keys.  the bartender


claimed not to have seen

Death around lately. but


she spoke she turned away

to polish a glass.


hans ostrom 

circa 1994/2021

Friday, September 21, 2012

Saloon Statment

You know (she said),
it's very important
to remember
the difference between
getting crazy
and
just being
a little
bit
drunk,
okay?



Hans Ostrom, 2012

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Tavern Haiku



"I put the sip in
dissipation," said the old
guy, tasting the rye.


Hans Ostrom, copyright 2012

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Dog Outside a Bar

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Dog Outside a Bar


Memory is loyalty
to something not there.
I sit outside the past
like a dog outside

a bar, and what
I'm waiting for went
out the back door
hours ago. I furrow

my brow and alert
my ears and eyes.
And I remember.
The future wants

to take me for a
walk. It hooks
a leash to my collar.
And here we go.


Copyright 2012 Hans Ostrom