old bartender
gone with the bar . . .
on the way home
thirsty for the things
I’ve never had
a glass
and a bottle of wine
in the dawnlight
alone
with my demons
Atlas Poetica, 33, 2018
A Room of My Own: Stock Ticker Tanka by Chen-ou Liu
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, CCXCVI: "stock ticker "
a bruised girl’s hand
clutches a slice of bread
in pixels—
a stock ticker flashes past
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