You are not Humphrey Bogart, and you’ll never get over it

by David Mac

Locking yourself away
in a room
with a bottle
can be as good as
locking yourself away
with a woman

Sometimes it’s the same
Often it’s better

Sitting there alone
watching Bogart play the classic loner
cool hard and
tough
straight
the main guy
how you wish to be

It’s at these times
in these rooms where
everything can be good

a little while longer
can be good
at last
As if everything was
black and
white

but
with no
white

and all the
black
in the
world