Poem: Welcome to the Suck

Welcome to the Suck

I’m quitting cigarettes, probably

until I start drinking again.

I like butts.

Thad says, “That’s

okay, Jimmer.” But

he always says that,

like a wired reply.

So I sit on the porch in the winter,

and the sky looks trippy

sometimes when I’m not on drugs.

—Jim Hegmegee

This article appears in December 2016.