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"whiskeys" poems
I'm trading sticks of cigarette for a poem Bottles of beer for a few more Whiskeys make me forlorn Why not a few more poems So I scribble and scribble some more I'm trading my loneliness for lines Rhymed or rhymeless, why should I mind When the please the eyes and tickles the mind I sure will memorize and mimic them like a mime So I'm still scribbling on this torn paper of mine I'm trading my hearts pain Trading it for a paper and a pen Like a painter ready to paint I deep my petite paint brush in a bowl of paint Dap dap, little dots, strokes and dashes as I dare to paint Little by little the whole picture is becoming plain I'm trading all love's tears Tears shade in secrecy for a poem shared publicly Though seemingly absurd but poems brings this inconceivable peace. So I'm scribbling and scribbling my way to serenity. I trade it all for a piece of poem I may not have made the point But I've washed clean my plough And starring at this beautiful not-so-beautiful poem I have read and reread it that it is starting to sound like a song. Reading one last time, "my best trade ever".
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Mar 3, 2015
Mar 3, 2015 at 7:16 PM UTC
My Best Trade
I had my cake and I ate it too, like all the time in the world that you took. Adorned with cherries and decorated with cream, like the taste of my lips that is only a thing of your dreams. I thought I have once tasted a slice of heaven, only for it to rot away to a thing from hottest hell. I had my time and you took it too, like my faith and my core that you shook. Laced with grace and the promise of salvation, thoughts of your touch once felt like a dream vacation. I thought I have once been granted patience, only for it to burn down a hole in my purest conscience. But then I was sure I had it all, the diamonds, the universe, I had you, but then I also have a curse. The parties, the best jazz age whiskeys, these shall be enough to distract me. The waiting, the wondering are opulence I could no longer afford. Like my favorite vice I had to abandon, you are a glimmering borrowed gown I shall never again don. But then I'm sure I could do more, the Philippine pearls, the world, wrapped around my finger in a red cord. The weddings, the finest wines I could buy, these shall do good to get me by. The patience, the pitying are charities I could no longer give. Like a prayer I utter in front of a new lover, I am the luxury, the gold, all the fortune you would never wager.
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Jun 24, 2023
Jun 24, 2023 at 1:11 PM UTC
Discipline
Cigarette hugs and Fireball kisses, How can this love be fictitious, How the smoke fills my lungs with tender embrace, The cinnamon whiskeys gentle caress, This is true love, Warm, Comforting, Whiskey tells no lies as it touches my lips, The smoke bares no knife as it surrounds my hips, So Cigarette hugs and Fireball kisses Because your memory still makes my eyes glisten.
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Jul 7, 2015
Jul 7, 2015 at 9:50 PM UTC
X's and O's
••• *Dancing lights Only hurt my eyes Screaming and loud music Disgusting to my ears Vodkas, cocktails and whiskeys Never wanted to feel frisky *** dope, cigarettes I will only regret Dancing, party, bar Never wanted to go that far Yes I have been to parties But never will it become my thing Maybe my past life has an old soul Who finds comfort in her own hole Yes, sometimes an anti-social And sometimes interacting is crucial So next time you ask me out Make sure you know what I'm about Coffee or tea, movies and books Exhibits and museums let's take a look A good music or a storytelling A walk in a park or just talking Pick me a flower, don't buy me a bouquet Just hold my hand and always stay*
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Nov 9, 2016
Nov 9, 2016 at 8:11 AM UTC
Old Soul
*I wish we met when her tarmac road was still mellow Then when she still danced to the Congolese tune "Mbelo", I wish we met when she could not stare in the eyes Right when she was too shy to tell any lies, I wish we met when she was still under her Mama's apron strings So innocent, when she still trusted human beings, I wish we met when she did church each and every Sunday And had no thought of bearing a guilty conscience someday, I wish we met when she saw the world for her best, not her worst When the balloon of her ***** wasn't yet burst, I wish we met when her future was still blinding bright Wish I'd seen her in the dawns of her life, not the nights When she knew no whiskeys or beers but only Fanta and Sprite So that she wouldn't get herself in trouble and drunken fights, I wish we met when she still had dry “unkisssed’’ lips When she thought kisses were an unhealthy swap of saliva, I wish we met when she hadn't developed attractive hips When she wasn't a depressed Heart-wreck survivor, I wish we met when she still believed in fantasy and fairy tales And had a honest fascination for cowry shells, I wish we met when she flamboyantly wore her natural African hair When she still thought herself naturally beautiful and fair, I wish we met when studies hadn't corrupted her mind and stolen all her hours When she still smiled at the sight of frail petals of red rose flowers, Wish we met when the movie title that described her ******* isn't “Olympus Has Fallen” But probably “Hard Boiled”, “Only the Strong” or “Swollen”, I wish we met when she had faith in things like weddings, when her soul was a spring of hope When she hadn't lost respect for such societal norms preferring to elope, I wish we met when she still respected danger And risked not accepting courtesy from every rich stranger, I wish we met when she believed true love existed in the world Maybe then she'd believe my each and every word, I wish we met when she still honestly needed a friend I’m sure I’d be there to love and care for her till the end.*
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Sep 7, 2015
Sep 7, 2015 at 3:19 AM UTC
MATE TOO LATE
*I wish we met when her tarmac road was still mellow Then when she still danced to the Congolese tune "Mbelo", I wish we met when she could not stare in the eyes Right when she was too shy to tell any lies, I wish we met when she was still under her Mama's apron strings So innocent, when she still trusted human beings, I wish we met when she did church each and every Sunday And had no thought of bearing a guilty conscience someday, I wish we met when she saw the world for her best, not her worst When the balloon of her ***** wasn't yet burst, I wish we met when her future was still blinding bright Wish I'd seen her in the dawns of her life, not the nights When she knew no whiskeys or beers but only Fanta and Sprite So that she wouldn't get herself in trouble and drunken fights, I wish we met when she still had dry “unkisssed’’ lips When she thought kisses were an unhealthy swap of saliva, I wish we met when she hadn't developed attractive hips When she wasn't a depressed Heart-wreck survivor, I wish we met when she still believed in fantasy and fairy tales And had a honest fascination for cowry shells, I wish we met when she flamboyantly wore her natural African hair When she still thought herself naturally beautiful and fair, I wish we met when studies hadn't corrupted her mind and stolen all her hours When she still smiled at the sight of frail petals of red rose flowers, Wish we met when the movie title that described her ******* isn't “Olympus Has Fallen” But probably “Hard Boiled”, “Only the Strong” or “Swollen”, I wish we met when she had faith in things like weddings, when her soul was a spring of hope When she hadn't lost respect for such societal norms preferring to elope, I wish we met when she still respected danger And risked not accepting courtesy from every rich stranger, I wish we met when she believed true love existed in the world Maybe then she'd believe my each and every word, I wish we met when she still honestly needed a friend I’m sure I’d be there to love and care for her till the end.*
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I keep writing down the year as if it means anything to me dear I don't feel connected, just another spirit lost. Gone is that turned leaf. And his mother still faces him in his wildest nightmares and keeps him home, and his mother cries tears and whiskeys down her pain. She can't do this on her own, but she's holding on; for the sake of them both. It makes him happy to know that he was actually a part of the family before he left and I can't speak for him, but I sure know when someone loses their mind again, better keep it on the downlow, because nobody wants to go to detoxification home, no. So, I won't report and he sings with me, and he lives with me and he loves me indeed. He just can't see about me, can not even breathe... and you can't even see that Our ideas linger together, and it makes us both in company just like it should be.
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Mar 3, 2016
Mar 3, 2016 at 9:37 PM UTC
Sake of Us Both
I’m always afraid you’re gonna kiss me in the elevator you ask me out to lunch and I always think you mean it we just wind up at the nearest mock irish dive every bartender in midtown knows your name even when it’s swarmed by the christmas crowd they always point to you, give a nod and laugh we pull up stools in the mid day snow my nose whines over the **** floors we order warm whiskeys and work on the crossword puzzle you say my company is charming but you’ve never asked me a single question and your eyes are always on the room but when everythings still and no women are near sometimes you’ll stop on mine I take your picture in the snow remember the morning I left and startled you with an exiting touch your cheek painted with drool I couldn’t sleep the night I stayed so I scribbled neil young quotes on your chalkboard walls listened to you snore, waited for the sun walked through stuytown like I’ve lived there all my life boarded a train back to the man who loves me prayed both of you never care too much and that I start soon
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Dec 20, 2013
Dec 20, 2013 at 5:09 PM UTC
laughing too loudly at yourself
Smoke rings drift into the night with thoughts seldom understood and often remebred. Gin a old friend to newly betray. Left cold in warm waters, Over the border trapped by a tongue with unspoken thoughts and empty emotions. Dust apon the flesh seeps into the soul. A page held close to heart and far from thought. Sometimes we have to be ******** Cause when in hell the whiskeys burn seem's to bring a chill. Fate is a evil ***** Ive grown to love. No need to say hello. When goobyes already a promise. She's as vacant as the mirage. repeating a action she leaves that part of herself behind. Holding onto the rage masked as passion. We remain numb to survive. *** void of love. Shells lacking soul. The dust takes to vein. The pen rewrite's the past. Why polish the edges to appear that which you can never be. Confessions of the hollow. To reveal the ******* who thrives within me.
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Apr 29, 2010
Apr 29, 2010 at 9:29 PM UTC
Abstract Endings
Strumming the guitar I keep writing down the year as if it means anything to me dear I don't feel connected, just another spirit lost gone is that turned leaf. And his mother still faces him in his wildest nightmares and keeps him home, and his mother cries tears and whiskeys down her pain. She can't do this on her own but she's holding on; for the sake of them both. It makes him happy to know that he was actually a part of the family before he left and I can't speak for him but i sure know when someone loses their mind again better keep it on the down-low, because nobody wants to go to detoxification home, no. So, I won't report and he sings with me, and he lives with me and he loves me indeed. He just can't see about me, can not even breathe... and you can't even see. Our ideas linger together, and it makes us both in company just like it should be.
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Nov 20, 2015
Nov 20, 2015 at 10:58 AM UTC
strumming your blonde hair, strumming the guitar
paths are crossed while others are being blocked with road signs neon lights on parkways blinding eyes how easily people come and go these days like sickness patterns and get learned and forgotten daily routines lost while olds ones are picked up like broken dishes gestures and words are re-gifted to the next birthday boy small fractions of memories stick like band-aids originality was lost three years ago love has become re-runs in syndication eventually the VHS of romance will deteriorate to fuzz and static running fast from the sopranos to baywatch not knowing where taste escaped lips on lips chewing and spitting double whiskeys all night and still feeling sober as the world around you falls into a drunken stupor like silk falling off a soft shoulder thoughts still present paranoia growing cigarettes are starting to be manifestations of thoughts this one's for my broken heart this one's because i'm drunk this one's because it's hot out and i'm bored when worse comes to worse sleep is always there until then no harness let's fall who cares if there's anything to catch us
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May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015 at 1:45 AM UTC
adulthood
Saint Patrick's day Two whiskeys six beers, Getting ready for the night. I wasn't ready. My phone buzzing Like a hummingbird Stuffed in my pocket. Suddenly I have friends, It's so overwhelming. Feels like getting cancer, I hope it was a misdiagnosis. Then I saw you. I'm used to it, But it's always just a ghost. Tonight it wasn't, And I wasn't ready. You were buried years ago, But **** you smelt the same. As the day I threw the dirt on you.
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 4:58 AM UTC
Irish Goodbye.
He was younger than me. He was a Prince of the “Street”. Folks would all stop and listen whenever he deigned to speak. To him profit came easy And with it came fame, (while I cursed my bad luck at the Powerball game.) Yet I’m still living and breathing, while he’s stiff as a board. His heirs all lining up to ravage his hoard. It’s said he had millions, yet, as you can see, they could not buy him health Or even longevity. He saw the sun set But did not see it rise. Was it pangs of regret? -Of Thrombosis he died. First they’ll hold a grand funeral with much mindless palaver. Then, like other such maggots, They’ll feast on the cadaver. They’ll Jet here and there To Paris or Rome Drink fine wines and whiskeys but seldom at home. Their meals will all be Five star and five course and all at the expense of one excellent corpse.
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Dec 18, 2011
Dec 18, 2011 at 6:09 PM UTC
Death of a Prince
eyes dart train station waits empty footsteps smartly sound the bone parade wiping make-up from your face you're waving to eternity but eternity does not wait for you, preferring preacher men in stiff neck-collars downing whiskeys just as you leave a butterfly dies & newspapers the next day print an article about the extinction of a rare species & the train station waits waits waits
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Jul 1, 2015
Jul 1, 2015 at 8:00 PM UTC
At a Train Station
AT 20,000 FEET such as it reciprocates our biological rights demands. our genetic material reciprocate magnetism.and your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device how couldn't i? at 20,000 feet drunk as **** clinging to a chair, clinging to each other, clinging to the air, this plane is quite obviously crashing, but betwixt flames, and screams, shouts of the crew as we all know we are to die, through the shouts of all this through every waking moment through the snow and the rain through death through pain and **** i would climb through sewers i would swim through a lake of radiation i would overturn every stone in chernobyl and never would i find. ten whiskeys deep and i think "oh **** what am i getting myself into?" and then "really, i don't even give a **** and then "christ, i need a cigarrette" and then, at the end of the day all that really matters is whether or not you svghjkgtorijhbnjkcvf
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Aug 11, 2011
Aug 11, 2011 at 8:15 PM UTC
@
"It will be like learning to eat without pepper, but slowly. As pepper adds flavor to each dish, so does love to each moment. In marriage, the love will inevitably become a forsaken understood; an uncommon commonality that, through the years, loses it's luster. But, if I cut pepper wholly out of my diet I would notice. Each dish I tasted it in would revel in splendor, no matter the meat or vegetable on which it dances. So, I vow to never cut out love because of the commonality of love that marriage will ensue. I will never give in to taking it, her, for granted. Spontaneous mountain getaway weekends with lots of Merlot and unashamed whiskeys and even the occasional smokes on our porch out our bedroom window, celebrating my wife with little poems and sunny side up eggs on an idle Tuesday morning, dancing and getting drunk in the living room at 2am when the kids are asleep. This is how I will keep love biting, burning, peppered.
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Feb 14, 2014
Feb 14, 2014 at 12:21 AM UTC
Peppery, smoke scented love
Drugs and diseases. Flesh and bones. Whiskeys and waters. Hi she said with such a cute ******* smile. Hey I said. What's going on? she gave me the up and down look and I knew right away she wanted me to **** her. You workin' tonight? Yeah, I'm workin tonight Such a cute smile and an *** that I could bounce a quarter off Ah **** man. I took a long drag off my smoke and turned to walk away But only because I'm trying to get to Kansas City for... I didn't really give a **** what the rest of the story was. yeah yeah Such a cute little thing. I walked back into the bar and took my place among the dead.
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Jun 22, 2012
Jun 22, 2012 at 12:40 AM UTC
Sometimes, it is best to drink and not ****
three 8.5% oranjeboom does that to you, in between several whiskeys, you end up derailed somewhere in the mind, you end up writing really crazy **** but of course in relation to past experiences, being told to dig up baby potatoes in an allotment patch filled with weeds, taking some home on the sly, while watching “here by the grace of god”, ok honey, just say it, retards, on a day-trip, drooling, taking out their genitalia and laughing being herded like cattle by the carers because their parents have died, the ones with down syndrome being the most intelligent of the lot, a little spark in them still there - because you weren’t the one who’s intelligence was insulted and told that this is adequate psychiatric therapy - but indeed it is, here in england, perhaps not as bad as the great american pharmaphilia (excessive pharmacological prescription; will the big buck ever buckle? who knows: but i do know that your brain will end up being a surgical insult to the professions of psychology: spongy goo tomato purée).
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Jan 18, 2016
Jan 18, 2016 at 8:58 AM UTC
8.5% x3
The windows broken seals make whistling bottle top noises in the ruckus, the seagulls swarming like spiders in the back field, the fat geldings hide by the hedges searching for shelter. The fire roars and we sip hot whiskeys, boys stroke their whiskers searching for wisdom. Hum advertising jingles, hum in agreement, wolf whistle at the young girls in small skirts exploring something they call "fun". Wonder if you remember what is was like. The taste of brandy reminds me of something, of a few things. Once I took a bottle to the head of a boy that betrayed me, stinking of it, and once my friend spit up like a baby, milk of her alcoholic mother into my lap in the back of a car. We're all so much older and yet younger than we are.
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Nov 20, 2013
Nov 20, 2013 at 2:26 PM UTC
Kids
Sly & Cunning Swift & Nimble A Demon at home, has life so simple. Whiskeys' soul on the rocks; Reading alone, past four o'clock
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Nov 19, 2017
Nov 19, 2017 at 12:31 AM UTC
Daily Demons
*Fall in the Ocean, don't fall in love you may forget how drowning felt like but you simply can't ignore the ache of a cracked heart or its shards decorating the floor sharp pieces that you'll step on and wounds reopen pieces which will clatter from deep within to echo the despair especially when you're beyond repair jump off a cliff and fracture, broken bones heal fractured Hearts seldom truly find healing,it's chilling when you place support about it but nothing changes and the more you organise your splintered heart the further apart it crumbles and breaks apart fall in Hell, the devils and monsters can be exorcised but the monsters of a dead romance never leave they taunt and haunt with voices whispering in your head and drug you through a living Hell that's eternal fall in acid, not a single piece of you'll be left behind love'll rip and have your pieces wandering blind fall in an abyss or the darkest deepest pit someone might find you,you'll wash off the **** but Love'll rob your sanity for it's mind impairing it'll take away your radars, disorient your bearing fall from the sky, your entire existence will splatter falling in love will deny you your esteem and have you stutter fall off a bicycle, you'll get up,dust yourself and ride in love you'll live your life like you've died climb one and jump, there's less pain falling off a tree unlike the fantasy of love that chains and never sets you free fall in the Sea, the sharks'll leave nothing for the world to see love will bewilder you through an endless cyclonic ecstasy it's worse compared to being once and for all torn by jaws which takes you to oblivion where lives no feeling of loss fall for anything else, fall for drugs and addiction love is a blade that'll never cease making its incision fall for wines and whiskeys,or any adulterated concoction my broken heart thinks all but falling in love a far better decision when you're out there searching for whatever you deserve embrace all else your heart desires, all else but love*
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Mar 23, 2016
Mar 23, 2016 at 3:31 AM UTC
All Else But Love
*Fall in the Ocean, don't fall in love you may forget how drowning felt like but you simply can't ignore the ache of a cracked heart or its shards decorating the floor sharp pieces that you'll step on and wounds reopen pieces which will clatter from deep within to echo the despair especially when you're beyond repair jump off a cliff and fracture, broken bones heal fractured Hearts seldom truly find healing,it's chilling when you place support about it but nothing changes and the more you organise your splintered heart the further apart it crumbles and breaks apart fall in Hell, the devils and monsters can be exorcised but the monsters of a dead romance never leave they taunt and haunt with voices whispering in your head and drug you through a living Hell that's eternal fall in acid, not a single piece of you'll be left behind love'll rip and have your pieces wandering blind fall in an abyss or the darkest deepest pit someone might find you,you'll wash off the **** but Love'll rob your sanity for it's mind impairing it'll take away your radars, disorient your bearing fall from the sky, your entire existence will splatter falling in love will deny you your esteem and have you stutter fall off a bicycle, you'll get up,dust yourself and ride in love you'll live your life like you've died climb one and jump, there's less pain falling off a tree unlike the fantasy of love that chains and never sets you free fall in the Sea, the sharks'll leave nothing for the world to see love will bewilder you through an endless cyclonic ecstasy it's worse compared to being once and for all torn by jaws which takes you to oblivion where lives no feeling of loss fall for anything else, fall for drugs and addiction love is a blade that'll never cease making its incision fall for wines and whiskeys,or any adulterated concoction my broken heart thinks all but falling in love a far better decision when you're out there searching for whatever you deserve embrace all else your heart desires, all else but love*
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Dappled, isn't it? Slotted bits of sun rays. A radiant dalmatians coat sprawled upon messy bedclothes. ***** sheets. Always ***** no matter. Yes, they've been changed. Thousands of times, they've been changed. That sparse sunlight shines. It highlights the grime and the sweat. I awaken to a stiff neck, and stretch out the cracks and the pops from my spine. My bones sigh as I flick a switch. The shower runs, coffee is brewing in the kitchen. I hum. I'll be humming for eternity, walking through grass and clods of mud. My worn boots go on, begging for a cobbler. I'll see the sky, the sun shares it with the daytime moon. I'll whisper to myself: It'll be time for bed soon. A couple hours. A few beers, or whiskeys. Waiting for that ever dependable dappled sunlight. It always comes. Until it doesn't.
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Nov 17, 2021
Nov 17, 2021 at 8:21 PM UTC
Daze days
i walked past the wine aisle today pretending to be grown up as i saw rows upon rose and expensive wines infused with notes of exotic fruits and smooth whiskeys, cool beers and cheap ***** i almost walked right past it a blur of artificial pink and green in the corner of my eye i had the sudden urge to linger for a little bit longer on that strawberry and lime cider. "hey you'll like this" you offered me a sip of your cup and suddenly i was hooked it's too easy to imagine the exact taste as it bubbles on my tongue, tingling, and making it's way down my parched throat easy to swallow and a delight going down especially perfect during a night out in town though it will never quite taste as lovely as when i sipped it from your lips sweeter than sweet a sensation reminiscent of, swirling, dancing twirling along my tongue, the most heavenly cocktail of you and my new favourite drink and suddenly, strawberries in season, remind me of you as you held me close and we missed the sun rise limes suddenly remind me of you as you let go and left only sourness behind i never liked cider until you brought the taste to my lips and suddenly, i wanted to drown in it but then you taught me, that like most alcohol it's best served cold with eyes that look past me and frozen strawberries a fizzy concoction of regret and enjoyment and longing and excitement and regret hard spirits and expensive liquor just cannot compare to the sweet and sour high from a bottle of strawberry and lime but imagine my surprise the first time after you left when i discovered that suddenly even something so pleasant could have such a bitter aftertaste and i'm left wondering how much longer will your memory cling to a branded bottle of my old favourite drink.
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Aug 28, 2017
Aug 28, 2017 at 6:30 PM UTC
strawberry and lime cider
i walked past the wine aisle today pretending to be grown up as i saw rows upon rose and expensive wines infused with notes of exotic fruits and smooth whiskeys, cool beers and cheap ***** i almost walked right past it a blur of artificial pink and green in the corner of my eye i had the sudden urge to linger for a little bit longer on that strawberry and lime cider. "hey you'll like this" you offered me a sip of your cup and suddenly i was hooked it's too easy to imagine the exact taste as it bubbles on my tongue, tingling, and making it's way down my parched throat easy to swallow and a delight going down especially perfect during a night out in town though it will never quite taste as lovely as when i sipped it from your lips sweeter than sweet a sensation reminiscent of, swirling, dancing twirling along my tongue, the most heavenly cocktail of you and my new favourite drink and suddenly, strawberries in season, remind me of you as you held me close and we missed the sun rise limes suddenly remind me of you as you let go and left only sourness behind i never liked cider until you brought the taste to my lips and suddenly, i wanted to drown in it but then you taught me, that like most alcohol it's best served cold with eyes that look past me and frozen strawberries a fizzy concoction of regret and enjoyment and longing and excitement and regret hard spirits and expensive liquor just cannot compare to the sweet and sour high from a bottle of strawberry and lime but imagine my surprise the first time after you left when i discovered that suddenly even something so pleasant could have such a bitter aftertaste and i'm left wondering how much longer will your memory cling to a branded bottle of my old favourite drink.
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The beat pulses. The rhythm shakes. And she never breaks eye-contact as she serpentines around me on the dance floor. I thank god for that. Because even after 4 whiskeys I can tell I'm an awful dancer.
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Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 4:32 AM UTC
1st Time For Everything
Dusty bottles of ***** Raise up dusty ghosts in this basement, Sickeningly sweet whiskeys and buttery shots, Warm, Then sharply struck by icy cold, antiseptic ***** I’m numbed and dulled to these divorces of life.
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Nov 15, 2014
Nov 15, 2014 at 4:38 PM UTC
Dusty Bottles
If only these bottles were as soft as your body If only they replied to conversation like anybody If only your memory would sublime in the cloud of the moment If only the much I've taken would erase the torment If only remembering the good times made me smile And not cry regretting why I walked an extra mile If only I had known that the good times were just future tears I probably would have survived these strong whiskeys and beers
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 6:12 PM UTC
WHISKEYS AND BEERS