Call of the Wild
They were very
much into a
Call of the Wild
frame of mind
Thought what they
needed was another
drug that would
take them
all the way into
an abyss
What they didn’t
Know was that they
had done more
than enough drugs
That they were
already in the abyss
& they were
just making a lot
of unnecessary
noise before
the Black Maria
came
Alan Catlin worked for the better part of 34 years in his unchosen profession as a barman in and around the greater Albany, NY area. He has published dozens of chapbooks and full-length books focusing on his work and the people he met while laboring in the trenches of bar warfare.
