Nick Talent’s most recent poem to appear here was Pulling the Thread (September 2014).
Girl Talk
By Nick Talent
Girl, I hear you.
You think he loves you
because he feeds you
good.
I guess you haven’t
noticed how often
he sips and swigs
quiet-like
or how he drives with
a Bud between his knees
and another on ice
cold
or just how many bottles
he brought for the weekend
you spent together
romantic.
Girl, he might love you.
But not nearly as much
as he loves the drink.
Sad.
I think I knew him once long ago. It was sad.