Parejo

Sucking on a fat, parejo, 'Romeo Y Julietta' cigar,

Plush, cracked, brown leather engulfing every movement.

Audibly; swollen, stained fingers, roughly carress

the cut glass tumbler.

Port grows warmer,

The paper sticks to the fat bottom lip

As the butt grows thick with spit

That drips and nestles in the unkempt beard.

The fire licks the bricks

And the heady atmosphere sticks

To the roof of the mouth.

Drink up, bottoms up, up, up, up.

Not far to fall, from toast

and hopeful eyes turn hopeless minds

to far off worlds, where turning tides

make beguiled men feel like sailors of the storm. 

Sucking on a fat, parejo, 'Romeo Y Julietta' cigar,

Eyes fall heavy,

The night was ready to engulf you in its heart. 

The fire slowly flickers to a death.