White Bar Sonnet

 

A bar or tavern in a simple room.

The room is either plain, light wood,

or wood painted white.

The bar is a wooden table or a long board.

 

Only clear liquors are served. The liquors are

lined up on the bar or on shelves behind the bar.

There are many rows of clean glasses.

On the bar, there is a bowl of limes.

 

A simple room in a tavern or bar.

Plain painted white light wood,

only lined up liquors clearly are.

A bowl of limes, with the glasses stood.

 

Ken Friedman in Los Angeles in 1964,

opening minds through the white bar door.

 

 

………………………

Ken Friedman, 1964

Los Angeles, California

With some sonnetization by Allan Revich

Toronto, Canada, 2006

 

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