day EIGHT HUNDRED and SEVENTY SEVEN

The Degenerate

This bar. Peppers N’at.

Holy shit.

Tom is 73, he says,
over and over.

He can’t hear. Says he has

a bank of televisions
and a VIP account at
Mountaineer Racetrack

and he’s the guy

(no one else)

who knows horse betting!

and it’s charming
until right after

he calls
my wife a SuperHero

because she teaches
little black kids

and says
those fucking monkeys

--Bob Pajich