John called it
his “writing kit”
A liquor bar on wheels
designed to roll anywhere
he wrote good poems
He claimed
he drank 10 shot glasses
of different types, flavors
and colors
to jump-start a steady stream of
poems
He starts with whiskey, vodka
wine, brandy then the liquid
inspiration flows
non-stop as he listens to
Paul Williams’s
sad love songs —
“I Won’t Last a Day Without You”
“An Old Fashioned Love Song”
“Rainy Days and Mondays”
“You & Me Against The World” —
I watch as 1, 2, 8, 10 and more
poems flow
non-stop
John, I ask him
can I talk you out of some of that
liquid inspiration
from them there colored bottles?
I’ve had a dry spell
and it will help my
writers’s block
Will you loan me
your writer’s kit
for the weekend ?
