by George Bowering
Once I had a dozen brewsky
with my buddy Ted Kluszewski
Then I got completely urban
with my buddy Pedro Bourbon
Next I had a jug of rum
with my buddy big Mike Lum
But I never used the spike
with my buddy Ozark Ike.
George Bowering once served as the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada, and is the author most recently of the memoir Pinboy.