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Rayn Roberts

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Category: Drinking

August 12, 2020August 12, 2020Rayn Roberts

Barmaid Snippet

  “Mind your p’s & q’s”, she said you’ll fall down walkin’ home or crash your car, end up dead not a good way to go, geek– and if you’re writin’ me a poem dot your i’s and cross your t’s. fourth stanza, line six, last word I’ve had an eye on you a while– […]

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August 3, 2020Rayn Roberts

La Feria de Abril, Sevilla, España

  What the old know the young don’t believe the wiles of youth are not lost on the wise: as a busy farmer sees a fox does not call his dog or get a gun the old allow freedom, turn a blind eye The young wonder is life always like this, the elders say, not […]

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February 7, 2017February 16, 2017Rayn Roberts

To My Mexican American Neighbors

The long hours of your drinking are now the short hours of my sleep. Sleep covers me with black sheets but your latino voices startle my ears. I would cry out the window, ¡Cállate!, but civility prevents me. So amigos, I still up with you Hearing the riot of your banter Pretending I’m a writer. […]

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February 4, 2017Rayn Roberts

Grrrrrl Friday

The future never arrives on time When it does It’s not what I expect: A walk in the park, A punk grrrl In pink Mohawk Lifts her green skirt Shows me some blue bush… Runs off laughing, I laugh too. I guess she wanted to shock me Give me a thrill, I don’t know. I […]

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February 3, 2017Rayn Roberts

A Kind of Drinking Song

The celebrants of Friday scotch, men of lesser deeds Spent time like pocket change in endless café-bars Made noise enough to wake the quick and dead: There was light drizzle on a cherry blossom way, The six of us, smashed, but more high on ourselves As most young men will be when booze is abused, […]

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