Stirred, Not Shaken

A dip in the Dow today, new lay-offs
liquidations or reorganizations.
Off to the club for grub.
A Tangueray
or Bombay
gin
dry
icy
dip
joy
dip
tap
eat
extra olives.
Insecure sureties.

Janet Stevenson is retired living in Massachusetts. Janet enjoys time to be creative writing short stories and poetry and has been published in Haunted Waters Press, Fine Lines, and in DAWN, the Rise Literary Journal of Rivier University.