Like Corked Brut

A bottle of bubbly
brut
to celebrate the third sacking
in four months

it will get us pissed
but
it’s sour and would ride better with
sweetness

We are just hanging on
like all the others
the rich
the powerful
the men with no will
and
the ladies struggling
to understand the fact
they’re alive

Yes
you can see the fingernail marks
of many
engraved
into the cheap wooden breakfast bar
of the world
right next to our bottle