he looked like Lord Byron
or he said he did,
I don't know what Byron
looked like,
I couldn't even read
him,
but Albert was tall,
fairly well-built
and he had this bright
yellow hair,
a whole mane of it,
and his eyes were a
fierce blue
and he had a well-
modulated English
accent
and dozens of
women.
he professed to be
a writer
but I never saw
any of it.
I have no idea
where his income
came
from.
but he always lived
in well-furnished
apartments
with some young
lady of fair
education.
and as I met him
on and off
through the years,
he became older
but his ladies
remained about
the same
age: 22, 23,
24.

if there is a point
to all this
and there may
not be, well, it was
that Albert loved
to drink
and I was perhaps
the heaviest
drinker he knew
of
and he would
invite me over
to imbibe...