How Gary Became a Bartender

January 16, 1975  (I was 30)

How Gary Became a Bartender

The door was kicked in

pointing guns stockings over faces

three of them all over the room

and gun at his head said

The money and the stash Now

I’ll blow your fucking brains out

Gary gave up the cash said Refrigerator

which held the hash

and was pistol smashed in the face

Look at the floor Big One said

musta weighed three hundred

Where’s the Coke

No coke said Gary looking at the floor

Don’t tell me that shit

grabbed Shelly by the hair

45 between the eyes said

Where The Fuck’s The Coke

no coke she said and Gary’s face

was pushed into the floor

Where are your Guns

Just one behind the door

I should stick it in your mouth

Take off your clothes

Get in the other room

Come out the door and you’re dead

lights went out

stood naked waiting

for silence

night blew into the house

they were gone

with the stash

and twenty-two hundred in cash