Carl Halling Poet Free verse

The Loonie's Last Reckoning

It was late in the afternoon
Of the 17th of January 1993
That my whole
Intoxicated universe
Finally exploded
                                                              
Drink me one day = 10 vodkas
7 1/2 pints 14 wines 
1 bottle of wine + 6 gins + 4 pints
Or 2 bottles of wine + halfs then 4 pints
Or bottle of wine + 5 pints + 
Cans and shorts
Saw myself as a loonie 
Of the Lunatic Underground
                                                              
It was late in the afternoon
Of the 17th of January 1993
That my whole
Intoxicated universe
Finally exploded

Five + Two = Seven Units By 11.30
12.30 = Six Units 1.30 = 5+2 = Five 
Units
6.30 = Four Units 7.30 = 3+2 = Five 
Units
8.30 = 4+1 = Five
Units
12.30 = Free 
Saw myself as a loonie 
Of the Lunatic Underground

It was late in the afternoon
Of the 17th of January 1993
That my whole
Intoxicated universe
Finally exploded
                                                              
Broken at last
With etiolated face
Tremulous hands 
After so many years
Of semi-Icaran hubris
                                                              
It was late in the afternoon
Of the 17th of January 1993
That my whole
Intoxicated universe 
Finally exploded.

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