Epilog To Vic's Place

EPILOG TO VIC’S PLACE by JOHN M. ARRIBAS I’m an alcoholic and no one seems to care My woman enables me due to her own despair If she really loved me, she would take up the fight To keep me from becoming the neighborhood blight But you see, she’s addicted in her own way She puts up with my antics hoping I won’t go away I’m free of worldly pressure after a drink or two She justifies her existence no matter what I do No doubt, we are both losers in this pathetic relationship Aiding and abetting each other in a moribund partnership It’s a vicious circle with no end or beginning Continuing downward til the final inning