Get Back
to where
you once
belong

2007 Issue

2006 Issue

SFCC Home

SFLR Home

stayed too long at vino’s
by ann laser

The same old faces, the same table,
the same beer, the same stale smells.
He’s a musician, dyes his hair blue-black,
loves a dog named Spook,
and carries a reminder of Alexandria, LA on his arm.
“No big deal,” he says.
“I had stayed too long at Vino’s, it was time to move on.”
Maybe he’ll go to Australia or cut a record deal.
There’s lots of time and courage at thirty-one.
Time to move on, live outside the limits,
ride the creative wave, and even learn to surf.
At sixty-one things seem harder, courage thinner.
I’ve stayed too long at Vino’s
there is no Australia, no record deal waiting for me,
only death in small daily doses.

2007

© 2006 Santa Fe Community College
The content of this website may not be reproduced without
written permission from the individual author or artist.