Richard Wink on the Other Side of the
Another Night
I had a headache
took two pain killers
the bright lights don't help my condition
neither do the laughing bouncers spitting on the floor
outside Norwegian blue.
Moving on through bottles and pint glasses
hours go by
endless wasted nights
slutty girls dance and pick out identikit haircuts
to dance with,
boys with tight t-shirts emblazoned with retro
americana slogans
hula girls
welcome to the bronx
boston university
white, brown and ambient yellow.
I watch these peacocks present
drunken compliments
bitter rejections.
that's harsh.
We walk back like we always do
in search of a taxi
i drunkenly push a wheelbarrow
through tombland
Glenn helps me lift
and we hurl it into the wensum
drunk and disorderly
eighty pound fine,
what a waste of time.
© Copyright Richard Wink 2007