unannounced
and uninvited
empty-handed
drunk off Benedictine
cold, unwelcome
in my home
I demanded answers
yet it did not move
a muscle. Leaning
over the railing with
a cigarette tumbling
out of its mouth
making the baby cry
over obnoxious conversation
that just wouldn’t stop
or know where to begin.
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more.
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