Alcohol pay checks

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    • anaisnais
    • Enters 2011, with all best intentions and wishes to all here at OP, have a good year whether I know you or not, and don't forget to check by my profile for new poems once in a while! Old and new friends whether I know you or not - welcome, come share, come learn together.... All constructive critique welcome, so that I might iimprove on my current level of works and move another step closer to my goal/ambition... Response to reads, & comments or friendly raport depends on health as to when!

    Alcohol pay checks

    singing the sorrows of booze downs
    stimulated
    he stumbles homeward
    worn out shoes, holed in a state
    always on a promise for the local municity
    when he gets next pay check
    only to drink it away before they’re replaced
    They’ll dry out by fire and walk again

    Home, he fumbles for a familiar key
    entering he’ll fall to the floor
    a thundering wreck of a man
    or slumps in his favorite chair
    abusive or reflective
    either way with little or no control
    a drowning man will sob as he comtemplates
    what a mess he’s made of his life

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    WordSlinger commented on Alcohol pay checks

    01-13-2011

    wow, i have memories, of things like this, of me and others, thank God for poetry, and positive people on my path, whooo, Happy New Year kiddo WS
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    anaisnais

    01/16/2011

    I'm so glad you can relate but that it serves as reminder and support. So good to hear you have the right persons in your path... Appreciate your view and comment. All the best... Anna-Marie.

    HarverTomsson commented on Alcohol pay checks

    12-31-2010

    Of all the self induced states of sorrow, alcoholism has to be the most pervasive and intrusive. That is why I do not drink, even socially.
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    anaisnais

    01/16/2011

    Thanksing you for your support as ever, appreciated. I agree entirely with yor pervasive and intusive ideals of dring, but do like a small tipple on rare occasion but only one or two at a push! Good to see you here! Anna-Marie.

    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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