‘Drugstores’

Alina Dolitsky is a photographer, poet and creator of photopoetry, blending words and images to create vibrant, emotional narratives. Born in Chisinau, Moldova, during the Soviet Union era, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family as a child, an experience that continues to influence her work. Recently, she has been merging her passions through photopoetry, combining visual and written art to convey deeper stories.

Drugstores

I miss those Marlboro memories,
Smoking, watching silver screens.
Call me from a phone booth late at night.

Scratches on my LP helped me sleep.

Beat boys jumping trains,
Bumming for a bed.
Now drugstores are disappearing,
Drugstores are dead.

Give me back records,
Give me cassettes.
Drugstores are disappearing,
Drugstores are dead.

I miss real life,
I miss the truth,
and politician’s bullet wounds.

Drug stores are disappearing.

Drugstores are dead.

Z. R. Jones is a father and business manager who has written poems between coffee breaks for the last decade. He believes in the power of quiet words, the hum of everyday life. This is one of his first submissions to a literary journal.