The Good Men Project

The Royal Oak

the Editors

it’s early doors and the air holds flies
above cold slots as Pete and Jack soon
joined by the Manukau stand apart
onliner that lists meet the bar past an
everyday nipping out popping in to drop
a bob or two on three locks also run to
Cove arms each way bits of shrapnel
picking adding sorting and slipping in
against later on Jetson driftwood a
wheel on the wall two brass whip from
some Ola fill the space this I let
drapes from crack Formica
but just the same in name and set apart
Pete and Jack and the man in the cap
last of the blackened towns and half and
half with the drop on the side pass them
every day chin to chest yellow eyes
among the liver spots beard staying with
capstan tracks framed by sixties hair
shoulders forward close to the
building’s edge and slipping in again

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