Ken Jarrett
ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN EVERYTHING
JUST SEEMS TO MAKE SENSE 

we were in Chico
on a bus stop bench
drinking
those pansy adult beverages
you know the kind
they taste like soda pop
only smoother

and normally I would be embarrassed
to be seen drinking
in public
anything that doesn’t burn
all the way down

but it went well
with the hot weather
already at 8 o’clock in the morning
and we had been drinking
15 hours through

it was a Saturday
the busses never even
slowed down for us
but really
we weren’t going anywhere
anyways
just wasting time
like children
with no TV
when school lets out
for summer