Maple Kahlua shots
With pure Vermont syrup

The actor Fred Thompson
Is the only one wearing a name tag

I’m shifting around the room
As if changing position
Is the answer

I am a stranger to myself
Drinking with forgotten college chums
I pass on the street
But do not acknowledge

A faceless poet
Bumming smokes
Longing for the craving

In a pub
With a doorway
Marked parable