Homebrew

Swirls, updrafts, the tick & hum
for the maintenance of staples-
cold milk & beer.

Piles of Yellow Pages as though
there's something else worth buying.

Someone's hung a sign saying
Caution: Wet Paint
round his neck while sleeping.

He wakes now,
half here;
full of odd moral conceits
& long gone people...

hazed, burly,

capable of drying out.