Friday, September 17, 2010

your drink is your woman

you would think

or maybe just I alone


that a drunk would be the world's greatest lover

from the outside in, it feels this way


I've known so many

drunks

winos

sauceheads

men submerged in the smokey pool halls close to the tracks

belching drink orders through the bites of lunch they had

their bedrooms, alone with truth and a bottle

then maybe a few friends show up

bad memories, all line up

linear like

perverse views, waxed with pinesol or cooking wine

the lowly rubbing alcohol rusting their gut


what do you get when you add 30 years?


bottom toothed bummers, chimps aboard a constant stretch of reality


so dedicated to a blind destruction, a lot like love


a dive into the chest of another

to wash yourself with them

the worst of them

the best

the froth beneath their lid and of their crotch

as they share that crotch with others and their froth bears no fruit for you

you're just an elevated roommate


like a sobbing consumer exploring the beer cave at the citgo


so courageous you are

to love your drink

to love your woman


blink only when they blink

so you don't miss a glance


the same as a drunk and a sip

it can't be missed

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