“Drunk At Walgreens” by Raymond Sewell

December 11, 2024

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Drunk At Walgreens” by Raymond Sewell.

Drunk at Walgreens

By Raymond Sewell

I am drunk at Walgreens

I am with new soulmates

I am buying a pride-hat

It is white with a rainbow in the shape of Mickey

My new soulmates are teasing me cause I’m 2spirit

They talk about making a 2spirit lightsabre at Disneyworld a 2 pronged

light-blade

I could cut through the homophobia in the room with it

I want to be offended but it is a good idea and I am drunk

Remembering the first time I saw a 6 story building or an escalator

I too was once a young moose

With a moose face like my young daughter

I am drinking outside a fire station

I find some of the firemen hot

I throw my empty can in the street and I am so stoned I think I am in a

play

Instead of in America where I wear a genocide

Raymond Sewell is an l’nu poet, singer-songwriter, and English professor from Pabineau, First Nation, New-Brunswick.

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