Drinks @ the Last Café, Poetry by Catharine Bramkamp

Genre: Adventure, Life

Drinks @ the Last Café

A Girl who lived in the back of a theater,
A Man who used to work for corporate PR,
A Drummer from a band long gone,
all moving across a ravaged country to the west coast,
where dreams were caught in the tide with no where else to go –
a blank verse poem about what happens after the end of the world.

By Catharine Bramkamp

Some took pictures with damaged phones
buildings flayed alive
collapsing away from the center
A pattern of worn dominoes hit by an angry child

You had to be quick of course, to see the photos
the cities that became place names overnight
A rescued laptop hooked to a generator with a minute and a half of charge left
one minute on a rogue site
thirty seconds before the corporation shut it down.

It’s not true that…