Summer 2004

Summer 2004

A.D. Winans NORTH BEACH YUPPIE BAR Hard to believe Jack Spicer Richard Brautigan once Drank here Looking at two lawyers Playing a game of liar's dice Here at Gino and Carlo's Bar In the heart of North Beach their faces white as pie crust dressed in double breasted suits And Italian imported shirts The legal mafia Making their own rules The one with the twisted smile Hides behind his dice cup His co-conspirator silently poking At the olive in his martini glass Looking like a hit man waiting To fulfill a contract     A.D. Winans DINING OUT WHEN I WAS YOUNG I didn't like it when my father took me with him for lunch at Compton's Cafeteria on Market and Van Ness in San Francisco It wasn't the food which was OK but the old folks that I feared The cook was fat and bald and there was no waitress The bus boy was old and not a boy at all and the people who came there to eat were retired people on low incomes with death warrants for eyes dabbing at their turkey chins with crumpled paper napkins looking like pallbearers back from a funeral   A. D. Winans was born and resides in San Francisco. He is the author of over 40 chapbooks and book of poetry and prose, and his work has appeared world-wide. A book of his Selected Poems will be published by Feel Free Press in England in late2004.

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