Drinking And Whoring With Hubert Selby Jr

it had been a long night of drinking

we had done the run

of bars and taverns

and ended up

back at

his flat 

floor covered 

in mouse turds

we ended up 

there

all soft and wobbly

with a pair of hookers

on his stale bed

and a bottle of four roses

poured into

two dirty glasses

shared between us

like the two women

who got fiery and noisey

and gave us a good time

it was in low light

and through bleary eyes

that cubby

looked at me

his face falling

to the lovely right cheek

of the woman’s ass

beneath him

and slurred

in this mangled shitty world

sometimes 

even for a moment

things can be alright

i nodded in agreement

reeking of woman

and content

tomorrow was going to be hell all over again