I drank a bottle
of jerry lee
it rattled my insides
and shook my brain.
It fizzed up
like a honky-tonky piano
in a Memphis bar.
In an old
glass bottle
with a brand-new shiny
crimped-up cap.
I think it was
half white lightning
and half cherry cola.
mama don’t want no cabbage
but she might take
a little boogie-woogie bubbly,
long as the Baptist preacher
don’t have to know.
Published on April 17, 2020 06:41