Trophies
I quit
drinking
when I
was 46
boxed up
my books
put my
typewriter
on a
high shelf
for two
years &
gave all my
running trophies
& medals
to an
artist couple
who turned
them into
an outdoor
sculpture which
by spring
was reduced
by the
weather
to tattered
cloth chipped
glaze &
warped wood.