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Alkies Poems - Poems about Alkies


Premium Member If I Make It To Old Age
...If I Make It To Old Age If I make it to old age, I’ll count myself lucky. Not careful or clever, not courageous or plucky. It’s all down to fortune at the end of the day. ......

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Categories: alkies, age, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Day In the Life - Act 7
...He sat on a bench in the Boston Common one day and watched children play, people drinking LATTE’S walk their dogs, the homeless scavenge, and the alkies and addicts beg for money. A somewhat disheve......

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Categories: alkies, appreciation, hope, men, wisdom,
Form: Prose



Premium Member The Night Before New Year's
...'Twas the night before the New Year. Gawd! All the beer had gone dry Not a house or a tavern could renew our supply. Was I too drunk to recall if what followed was fact? While we drunks were all p......

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Categories: alkies, drink, humor, new year,
Form: Rhyme
A Bullet For Darling Daughter's Mother
...A Bullet For Darling Daughter's Mother I should of listened to my gut feeling from what my eyes told me about you. From what I saw you looked like, the cheap disposable type. A trashy kind of woman ......

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Categories: alkies, analogy, anger, corruption, dedication,
Form: Free verse
No Place Like Home
...What's going on in my home town? I ask you this from behind my frown The high streets full of charity places Populating the vacant spaces. We are overrun with taxi cabs "You working late pal......

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Categories: alkies, feelings, future,
Form: Rhyme




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