Chinaski puts $50 on Flying Ace
A Poem
Chinaski knew that is was
All beer and whores and
Idiots and the raceway while
Playing odds all day.
1:1 Getting paid
(Remember ratios are
Recurrently changing)
1:2 Getting laid
1:3 Smoke and fade
1:1,000,000 ways to die
I drink beer at his gravesite
Which quotes "Don't try"
You either let it go or catch
The goddamn fly.
He never puffed grass
Only got hammered off his ass,
Lit cigarettes and hated the living
Dead huddled in mass...
He was piss drunk at a
Typewriter wording the
Very scene I'm living in,
A studio apartment with the
Pisser down the hall.
"They've done it all"
Is what he told me not
To think.
Write.
Just drink.
Fuck.
Just drink.
Go outside.
Just drink and
Play the odds.
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Having a cold one for Henry - Salud!