Despite What You Might Think
There are still drunks today, in 2023,
after all the Naltrexone and bad bets,
after bad TV and drummer’s livers,
Mesopotamian hangovers and Bukowski;
after all that, we’re still around,
redownloading Grindr at noon,
coming awake to the quilt of night.
Drinkers
What a rich, wild life
waking up to endless thirst
in the rooms of history.
Rehab Food
Days we had Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy, drank
coffee, talked fights
and women, played frisbee.
At night we stole chowhall
cookies and woke up
screaming in our beds.
- © Miles Varana 2023
Miles Varana’s work has appeared in Typehouse, The Penn Review, and Passages North. He has worked previously as a staff reader and managing editor at Hawai’i Pacific Review. Miles currently works for WKBT News in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he does his best to be a good Millennial despite disliking tandem bike rides.
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