1.16.2013

snakes shed skin in casings



he sits inside the ghost
of a cowboy marlboro
and half a stale croissant
atop a stack of hustlers.

 his cold coffee collects smoke and ashes
which float like snow at midnight
and he sips at it anyway.

the chick he caked last night
has a perfect circle birthmark
that dots her spine in the center

the shitshack rorschach stares
and he snakes the last
of his smoke towards the yellowed
stucco ceiling and
thinks about