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New Year's Eve

If you’re in a crowd….drunk If you’re home alone….drunk In jail…….drunk “Drunk as a skunk!” Sober? Hell no! No matter Anywhere drunk Any way but dead For God's sake It’s New Year’s Eve! Before long The ball will be descending Come down like the blade of a guillotine And if you’re very lucky You’ll wake up New Year’s day Feeling rotten avocado green On the bathroom floor

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Robert A. Dufresne

Date: 1/15/2010 7:19:00 PM

sheesh, Daver! I used to like avocados. They will never be the same . Great new year free verse though! Guacomole? oh no!-Robert

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/3/2010 9:31:00 AM

haha. Very descriptive one, Daver. By the way, on your story of the white kitty, my goodness, our stories are exactly the same. I had Callie ALSO for 17 years when she got the lump that grew larger and she slowly died of cancer. And I too held her at the vets as they put her to sleep. I still regret not taking her in when I first felt the lump. I think she could have been saved. Now I know lumps in cats can be more than just hairballs. Never again!!

John Freeman

Date: 1/2/2010 5:32:00 PM

I remember some days, in the past thankfully, like this Daver.Haaaaaaaaa! Hope you had a good one. Wishing you the best for this coming year. Sincerely, Moses

Debbie Guzzi

Date: 1/1/2010 6:14:00 PM

Ohhhh goodness no I don't like ruining the pleasant feeling of tippsy with a hangover haven't done that since I was 20 LOL 1 time was more than enough to learn restraint! Light & Love

Date: 1/1/2010 9:45:00 AM

Such a sad way too many find celebration. Line 14 is so vivid. Keep on writing! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Karen

Constance La France

Date: 1/1/2010 5:05:00 AM

i could have gone out.. got drunk as a skunk.. could have woke feeling like a rotten avocado.. on the bathroom floor... could have.. but instead i wrote my new years resolutions, yep, its on paper now, and i rented movies and with a big bowl of buttered popcorn, cozy in my little nest, so cozy, with kitty beside me... i said happy new year kitty on the stroke of midnight, she said meow.. as we settled into the sofa to watch another flick... new years resolution.. get out more..

Sara Kendrick

Date: 12/29/2009 3:04:00 PM

Ruins your day doesn't it. I would not know for I have never been there. Sara

Sue Mason

Date: 12/29/2009 12:15:00 PM

Not any more ... LOL ... hope your New Year's Eve is more like a chocolate sunday than a rotten avocado ... smile ... and that 2010 is a good one for you and yours !!

Carol Sunshine Brown

Date: 12/29/2009 12:14:00 PM

I thank you for writing and sharing your poetry with us here at PoetrySoup Daver. I offer you warm greeting for the New Year with best wishes to you on your writing endeavors in 2010 whatever they may be. Love, Carol

James Marshall Goff

Date: 12/29/2009 9:55:00 AM

btdt! great fun! Daver!.... inspiration for my mississippi bullfrog poem?.. I camp along the Mississippi in its northern most reaches on Native-Lands in the summertime.... the wild-rice beds hold a plethora of mind-rattlingly-loud frogs! which goes dead-calm when a predator is close! nature's warning system! I wrote this one night in this place!

Audrey Haick

Date: 12/29/2009 9:08:00 AM

...Feeling rotten avocado green on the...so clever! Great job, Daver! And a Happy New Year to you! Drunk or sober!! Peace and love, Audrey

Elaine George

Date: 12/29/2009 8:50:00 AM

I'll be watching it all on the tube completly sober and having a great laugh. Lainie