04-22-2024, 07:25 AM
Sunday afternoon at the pub
beside three regulars shooting the same shit
they sat down for a decade ago,
I think about the bones in their closets.
The Newfie is joking about a girl
with red hair he could have fucked
fifteen years ago on Signal Hill,
but his stomach was rumbling from ale
and he woke up in the brush
without his watch.
The man to his right laughs
before launching a diatribe against the force,
he says most cops are alright
but the union protects the bad apples
on paid leave for misconduct,
and his friend is a lawyer who defended a man
who spent ten years in prison
on a murder charge overturned
for planted evidence.
Beside me on the Newfie's left,
a man rises from the stool
stumbling towards stairs
he could amble down in a coma.
beside three regulars shooting the same shit
they sat down for a decade ago,
I think about the bones in their closets.
The Newfie is joking about a girl
with red hair he could have fucked
fifteen years ago on Signal Hill,
but his stomach was rumbling from ale
and he woke up in the brush
without his watch.
The man to his right laughs
before launching a diatribe against the force,
he says most cops are alright
but the union protects the bad apples
on paid leave for misconduct,
and his friend is a lawyer who defended a man
who spent ten years in prison
on a murder charge overturned
for planted evidence.
Beside me on the Newfie's left,
a man rises from the stool
stumbling towards stairs
he could amble down in a coma.