Good bourbon (Four Roses),
Lemon juice,
One maraschino cherry, smashed
Creme de Cassis (1 teaspoon).
Studied psychology,
Went into marketing,
Then advertising.
That was my life in the novel
I meant to write in the first
full flush of joy
in being a poet, a boy
barely twenty years old,
tall, thin as a man who runs
and never stops, enjoying it, like Sisyphus.
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