Death Rattle by Tony Pena

Scrolling through images
of pixel perfect women
in the find sex sites,
smiling with amazing
enamel genetics
or quality veneers,
advertising themselves
as cougars though a good
score younger than I,
prompts me to rewind
my old man’s vintage
black leather strap Bulova
given to me when his time
stopped making sense,
light up a stogie saved
for special occasions,
and reread the obits
in the local rag
to better gauge just
how many good years
I’ve got to kill before
I turn the gun on myself.

About Tony Pena: 

Tony Pena was selected as 2017-2018 Poet Laureate for the city of Beacon, New York.  

A new volume of poetry and flash fiction, "Blood and Beats and Rock n Roll," is available now at Amazon.   His publication credits include   "Dogzplot,"   "Gutter Eloquence," “Hudson Valley Transmitter,” “Misfit Magazine,” "Red Fez," “Rye Whiskey Review,”  "Slipstream,"  "Underground Voices," "Zygote in my Coffee,"  and others as well as a self published chapbook, "Opening night in Gehenna."

Colorful compositions and caterwauling with a couple of chords can be seen at:

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