Drinking Shack

out back in this
stolen country
is the runner up

to our drinking shack
staged like broke wood
& bloodied pistons

I woke up at 4 AM
and poured a whiskey
to pretend it
was still night

He will think
of the woman
he loves lost
in the misted anise hills.

And I won’t be there
and sister won’t be there
and the black haired Greek woman
who tells him to leave
his pants on the porch
because they reek
of turpentine
won’t be there either.

Everyone spends their life
dying in parking lots.

from tourniquet dreams EP, released March 20, 2022

https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/track/drinking-shack