Saturday afternoon
Summer.
Early
The 169 Bar
East Broadway
Jimmie Smith and his organ
On loud.
No one here,
But Cass and Vince.
Bartenders / friends
Cass serves a cranberry.soda.
Cranberries.
In 1969 I raced my VW
through the bogs west of Plymouth
On Qualludes.
I ditched the Beetle in a pond
My three friends and I lifted the front from the bog.
The ‘ludes hadn’t lessened our teenage strength
Free and high in the 70s
Cranberry bog
Cranberry juice and soda
The 169
An empty bar
Just me, Cass, and Vince
We are us