Train Wreck Women and Whiskey Nights

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Froward.
I found the word highlighted in my Bible.
I remember liking how it rolled off my tongue.

And thinking about tongues,
all the women I loved over the years came to mind.
Red dresses dancing
between shots of rock gut
and sloppy bar bands.

Wayward.
Full of drunken sailor vocabulary,
fingernails like a feral cat.
All twist and spark.

Unruly.
Thunder in a miniskirt;
honey, where’d your panties go?
A grinning succubus.

Fire.
And the soul that flirted
with the night�"
and every other bum in the joint.

I lived with them.
Helped out with their kids.
Drank myself through them.
Played strip poker on
nights ripped mad
by cockroaches
and Sinatra.

My way? F*****g A-right.
They were wayward trains
plagued by broken tracks.

And still, I loved them.
Cussing, spitting, rolling
through my nights.
Laughing
and f*****g
and crying a lot.
Screaming, you b*****d.
And then making up
over a bottle of Thunderbird.

They left traces of a wildfire
on everything they touched.
My heart, my mind,
my c**k.

Even when they carried
that cheap cardboard suitcase
out the door,
or stayed long enough to
crack my solace,
I inhaled them
like cheap cigarettes.

Sometimes harsh,
always alive.
And somehow beautiful
in the hunger
they left behind.

Author's Note

I just posted a new long-form reading on my YouTube channel — the first half of my short story Whoops! along with two poems, There Was a Time Without the Internet and Under My Bed.
If you’d like to hear the pieces read aloud, here’s the link:

👉 YouTube Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq0UTaJahjg

All my books are available on Amazon.
Thanks for reading and for all your support.

— Thomas W. Case

Reviews

[ETERNITY]

What a beauty! Thomas, isn't it funny how we miss what we never had?
We miss the married life until we have it.
Then we miss what we had while we were single and just friends.
The passion and the chills and the blood pulsing at just a thought....
Your write is awesome!

[Thomas W Case]

Thanks. I appreciate you.

[ETERNITY]

I'm SO looking forward to hearing you read this one!

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you, I'm doing some other good ones too....gritty.

[ETERNITY]

Sure, you always read good ones. I'll be there with bells on!

[Thomas W Case]

lol. Very cool. Thank you.

[ETERNITY]

Thomas W Case, Your write is posted on my Facebook.
Also Scorpious Alpha reads it at the bottom of the poem. Click the Facebook link.
https://www.facebook.com/Eternity1957/

[Thomas W Case]

Hey, thanks. I appreciate it.

[ETERNITY]

My pleasure. Merry Christmas ;)

[Thomas W Case]

You too....for some reason, the link of your friend reading doesn't work.....tune in Friday for my longer you tube video....I'm going to nail it. lol

[ETERNITY]

I will be there!

[Thomas W Case]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/4102060289937779...I was trying to send you a Facebook link.

[ETERNITY]

Okey Dokey! That worked! Thanks!

[ETERNITY]

"One of the nurses looks to be a member of the cactus family"...Lol. Yes! More emotion!

[Thomas W Case]

lol. Thanks. I appreciate it.

[ETERNITY]

But to read SO BLASE' really ruins it for me.

[ETERNITY]

I'd LOVE to hear you reading THIS. One thing I notice, Thomas, on Youtube, it seems the "passion" is just barely there...
I mean, What are we afraid of? The passion police are going to pull us over?

[Thomas W Case]

I'm doing another long form 7-10 minute you tube video on Friday....I will read this one and put some passion in it. lol

[FlaLover]

Blatant honesty blended with poetic talent!
I always enjoy reading your works because your creativity allows me to visualize events in ways different from my normal view.

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Loved this raw honest poem
Well bloody done I say

[Thomas W Case]

Thanks, Julie. I appreciate it.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Reminds me of a man that came through an addiction and is trying to save others from going down the path he was on before. A great write for sure, friend.

[Thomas W Case]

I have, and I am. Thanks, Kenneth.

[red93]

Fabulous Work Thomas, you are twanging the lyre of the Beats and Bukowski and no mistake. In my younger days I went to Paris France on many occasions, and one of my treats over there was buying Lucky Strike cigarettes, which you hardly ever saw in English Shops. Exceptional ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you, my friend. I appreciate it.

[Neville]

Absolutely spot on poetry Thomas .. Bukowski would be blushing and proud of you my friend .. Amongst many other things from my distant past, I remember most fondly but perhaps rather stupidly Thunderbird red and blue and cheap cigarettes .. Seasons best to you, your muse and your pen .. Neville

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you, Neville. I appreciate you.