Gary Ciocco teaches Philosophy at Carlow University and other schools. His poetry has been published in Backbone Mountain Review and Seminary Ridge Review and is also forthcoming in anthologies from Madville Publishing and Moonstone Arts. He lives south of Pittsburgh and goes far and wide to hear and promote poetry.

Beer Money for Almost Nothing

Beer Money for Almost Nothing “Holdin’ on to sixteen as long as you can  Change is coming ’round real soon  Make us women and men.” John Cougar Mellencamp, “Jack and Diane” The Rolling Rock Brewery, red brick behemoth, stood just down the street.  I’d had some of the palest ale already, but in nineteen-eighty-two I stepped inside.  …

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