Monday, October 19, 2015

the ‘I’s in Northville Downs [2010]

  with 'I's in his tears
he arrived at the track
  to gamble his guts and drink
  abstract beverages
 
  she had not counted him
  with staunch efficiency
and this numerical oversight
  might have persuaded another culprit
  to examine his additional self

but this blubbering solipsist
  inebriated     spent     and cowardly
             has now gone face down
  a subtracted stub beneath the urinal

  and rather than rise for the race
with his attractive swagger
  ($100 on the filly to show)
  he's crying singular 'I's
                                             into a puddle of vomit and piss

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