guillermo
sits outside
on a bench
with his hard on
and his whiskey
talking to twelve-year-old girls
nursing an injured pigeon
don’t touch that thing,
guillermo says
pigeons have diseases
pigeons are nothing but flying rats
guillermo drinks his whiskey
and pulls on his crotch
he smiles at the twelve-year-old girls
he wishes he was as beautiful
as something like a flying rat.
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John Grochalski is the author of the poetry collections, The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out (Six Gallery Press 2008), Glass City (Low Ghost Press, 2010), In The Year of Everything Dying (Camel Saloon, 2012), Starting with the Last Name Grochalski (Coleridge Street Books, 2014), and The Philosopher’s Ship (Alien Buddha Press, 2018). He is also the author of the novels, The Librarian (Six Gallery Press 2013), and Wine Clerk (Six Gallery Press 2016). Grochalski currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where the garbage can smell like roses if you wish on it hard enough.
