Pickled by Alan Catlin

He looked as if
he’d been canned
and preserved
in a jar
and forgotten about
in some dark
cellar for so long
his skin had turned
as yellow as
the beer he
was trying
to get his
terminally
shaking
hands to hold
long enough
for him to take
that one long
last drink

Alan Catlin is the poetry editor of misfitmagazine.net. His latest books of poetry are American Odyssey from Future Cycle and Last Man Standing from Lummox Press