Twilight Zone
Cocktail
Looking at this
guy
standing at the
end
of the bar so
clueless,
it was like looking
at
yourself in a Men's
Room
mirror in a gas
station
in the Twilight
Zone
and being
instantly
transported,
transformed
into something that
had
fallen off the tail
end
of the Joad family
truck
half way through the
Dust
Bowl to nowhere and
discovering, not
only
did the idiot
foundling
child survive, but he
re-
produced, continuing
a
line of some
subhuman
chain of being. Feeding
him drinks wasn't
going
to change anything
vital
but it always held
out
the possibility that it
might
give him
ideas.
Bedtime
Cocktail
Nembutal dissolved slowly
into champagne
She looked as if
she'd missed
a
second casting
for
her role as a
side
show Marilyn
look
alike bimbo in
Pulp
Fiction and had
settled,
instead, for a walk
on
part on the
backlot
of Killer Klowns
from
Outer Space, was
so
far into the joy
juice
before high
noon,
rapid eye blinking
false lashes,
suggesting
long nights up
close
and personal, press
on
nails, daggers to
your
spine, looks that
sd.,
"Once, long ago, and
far
away, I'd been
with
the great ones."
but
look where it got
you;
nothing but Bad News,
and here, now, with
me.
Sperm Whale
2
If he had sd.
that
he'd shipped
with
Ahab I might
have
believed
him.
He had what could
only be described as
a real old world look
that he might have
gotten
from stowing
his
gear in Davy
Jones's
Locker or
from
sleeping
under
the dilapidated
front
porches of
squats
along Quail
Street
sd. he
heeded
straight fire
water
over ice with a
healthy
dose
of pepper for
the
impurities, a
habit
he'd picked
up
during the
War.
I didn't ask
him
which War,
though
from the look
of
him, it was a
War
of the Worlds
and
he had been
on
the losing
side.
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