This character trait has of late been giving me gyp
and been making me slip,
back,
back on the rack
stretched out and strangling for one more pipe,and
crack,
that's what I do
that's what I am
a betrayal of all that a man can betray
a lay down and die man
a won't give it a try man,
the trash cans are full of me
overflowing with bonhomie and
as useless as you could be
I could be better.