The Weight Of The Head
Rimbaud had consumed more
alcohol than any 16 year old
could possibly hold, and was
laying in the gutter puking
on the Boulevard Montparnasse,
in a new, blue silk blouse …
that he had stolen from a
40 year old trick …
who had finally gone home
to his grieving wife.
Doug Draime lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon. His most recent collection of poetry, More Than The Alley, was published by Interior Noise Press. He also has two chapbooks available: Los Angeles & Rock published by Covert Press.
Copyright © 2013 by Doug Draime
Randomly Accessed Poetics 
Doug Draine’s Rimbaud’s has a tragi comic outlook as an apt clever portrait of the poet.
BZ Niditch
Many thanks for the nice comment, BZ, Your work definitely kicks my ass too.
Doug, your poem is really dark. And I like dark twists and turns in stories. And B.Z. I like your work too. I love the fact that you stop by and leave comments. And I wish that I was as talented as the artists I have selected to post and print in the zines.
Thanks.
really nice. great mood is so few lines.
The use of the ellipsis is confusing to me?