Last night, as I lay muddled,
in my whiskey-soaked slumber,
A wraith-like mist appeared;
blue-black and musty scented
in tattered rags dipped in dust.
My burning sleep-clenched eyes
could not squeeze the scepter gone.
Her orbs, two onyx stones
set above translucent cheeks;
her mouth, a gaping maw
spewing ruby-red flames.
She floated on an icy breeze
scented with blood and bitters.
“Last call!” she hissed,
pouring me two bony fingers
of amber absolution,
judgment oozing from
her snake-coiled tongue.
I listened to the familiar tinkle
of liquefied reasoning cascading
across ice-cubed rebuttals.
Fear terrorized me,
stroking my belly with cold hands.
My gut curveting far and high
like smoke-flecked stallions
raking the black sky
with their steel-sparked shoes.
the earth reached up
with vise-gripped soiled fingers
grasping my naked ankles
and pulled down my saturated bones;
my drunken soul laid out and set
beneath lichen-laced granite.
Jagged stone-edged knives
etched my name
and this, the year of my drunken descent.
very interesting – i suppose being overwhelmed by the feeling of drunkenness can be quite powerful, almost romantic in a way.
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It can..I don’t recommend it. Too many years it fueled my every waking moment. It took me places I have yet to include in my poems, but it explains the darkness of the writing. Thank you for reading and commenting.Kimberly. ~Dennis
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