Saturday, June 25, 2022

Ed Smith

Ed Smith reading “Return to Lesbos” at Beyond Baroque, 1982.


MY LAST BEER

It was a long time ago and

I don’t remember it. I was

sitting in a stuffy, dark bar

on a hot sunny afternoon and it

came in a mug. It was one

of those things I thought

I would enjoy more than I

actually did. And not the

first time either. One of

those many things. One of

those many things that just

gradually got replaced by

what’s become everything

else, everything else that’s

just always never enough.


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