THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS. Jay Passer

the most important things are

specs,

keychain,

wallet,

inhaler,

pocketknife,

cell phone,

baseball cap,

and the 

woman

to keep on

emptying those pockets

onto the side table

for,

with the lamp 

just sputtering

out a dull 

glow,

a couple bottles,

and a couple more smokes

later,

after a long

day, after a somewhat meaningless

life,

just

being.

Jay Passer's work has appeared in print and online since 1988. He is the author of several chapbooks and has appeared in a bunch of anthologies. His latest collection, they lied to me when they said everything would be alright, from Pski's Porch, is available at Amazon. Passer lives and works in San Francisco, the city of his birth.