Shower Beer
There’s nothing
monumental here tonight
after another twelve-hour shift
my work clothes caked
with food and blood coil
like vipers on the bathroom floor
dinner sits flatlined
on the kitchen counter
next to a slew of notices and bills
and my wife attempting
to stay awake for me ends up
snoring on the couch again.
Something tells me
as I hold this lonely pilsner
like some sort of token
and let the cold water
from the showerhead
spray these aching bones
that maybe
I’m blending in
with these days
and even
this beer now
is starting to get warm.
©2022 Cord Moreski All rights reserved.
Cord Moreski is a poet from the Jersey Shore. Moreski is the author of The News Around Town (Maverick Duck Press, 2020), Shaking Hands with Time (Indigent Press, 2018), and Stay Afloat Inside (Indigent Press, 2016). He was the host of the New Jersey poetry series Words on Main and the virtual poetry series The Couch Poets Collective. When he is not writing, Cord waits tables for a living and teaches middle school children that poetry is awesome. He is currently working on several new projects for 2022.