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Nostalgia Act


    


                We're all fairly drunk here
yeah? So             when Lucy claimed
                       I cared for nothing
                                    but booze
                   & the continued survival
             of the Tree Kangaroo
                          I didn't disagree. In fact,
                     it was so rare,
                    we didn't argue once that day
         over the true intent
                               behind Hot Tub Time Machine
                 or even the night I pretended
                                to fall asleep
          instead of snorting free coke
                     with local dream pop celebs.
              [update: my first reader
                                     just informed
       it wasn't actually dream pop celebs
                           it was their tour manager, hence
                       all that free
            coke] You know? I -
                      I'm not even doing my job today.
                               Had I remembered
                   my albeit kind boss was off
                               I'd still be in bed
              constantly hounded by the hounds.
                 Home ownership will be the end of you & I
                                 but so will our rent.
                              Do you see a way out?
                        For them?                 No.
        For us, silly.            We have to find one.
                     They're not gonna let us
                                   go softly into anywhere




Joseph Goosey is the author of the chapbook STUPID ACHE (Greybook Press, 2013) and one full length collection of poems, Parade Of Malfeasance (EMP Books, 2020). He lives in North Carolina.