a table set for 2

a table set for 2.

______________

I'm sitting 

at a table set for

2.

staring at a
Photograph

of You.

Smoking my
50th

Cigarette.

Picking
restlessly
at my Food.

_

Misery
Haunts

the 13th
Hour..

saturated
by

Loneliness.

As I Drown in

The Stench of

Dying Flowers!

(that I once saw

your Angel

Hands Caress.)

_

"Would you

care for more

my Dear?"

I ask the
Picture.

(wondering if

A presence is

near.)

"Perhaps
some

Fancy Liquor?"..

"or
Another Devil
Beer?!"

"If not I'll drink

one for us both
and mockingly
Cheer!!

(The Coming of

another Hateful

Year.)

_

I wake up
Dead

at a Table set for

2.

Tears staining

a Photograph of

You.

Then light my

hundredth
Cigarette.

(Drowning in

Our Ghostly

Solitude.)

_

j.s.h.