I was up all hours last night
insomniac that am
worried about money
politics and war
Deadlines and bodies
of editors and critics
danced through my brain
Rejection notices
declared bankruptcy
before I could mail the bills
Mother in laws
warned their daughters
about me
and my numerous infidelities
no matter how many times
I divorced them of thought
Old soldiers
marched into my dreams
parading their bloody colors
as I dozed off into my eternal sleep
shouting 'Kill the bums'
while firing shots
of Irish whiskey
round after round
over my still born
drunken head
Here all this time
I'd been thinking
they were already dead.....
There is only one thing in this world
prohibiting me from going insane
and it's this picture of my beautiful muse
who keeps rewriting
the last few chapters of my life
as if it really matters to her
how and when I call it quits
and finally write 'The End'___
Ted Sheridan
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pub-lished/
