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| Still Life With Martini by Alan Catlin (New York) Source: Drunk And Disorderly (2003) They think its funny that my bar nickname is Doctor Death. I never killed any of those people who dropped dead on me, it's just that their numbers came up in my shift. The guy that fell over and heart attacked at my feet. I never even served. Nor did I give that Lady at the Itie anything; I pass the cordial cart by and she croaks That's my fault, right? Ernie never even touched the martini before he had an aneuryism in the bathroom. He died at my feet, thirty-three years old. I could see that martini I made him shimmering on the table long after he was gone. losing its chill. -------------------------- The Ghost Road by Alan Catlin (New York) Source: Death Angels (2004), p .2 In Nam-- half in jest-- we called every road, every path, every where we went highways to hell and they were once you saw where we went when we walked there ending up like human litter not fit for body bags, ghost patrols for the dis- embodied, lost spirits one and all. -------------------- Note: Death of Angels is a book of short stories with poems. -------------------- |
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