The Shining
She must have
taken a shining
to me
Sat there looking
at me with her
lovesick
puppy dog
eyes
Asked me
if I wanted
to go to
a secluded
motel
somewhere
and get
it on
as if I
didn’t
know
what
that would
lead to in
the end
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.
