Alkies Poems - Poems about Alkies

...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. ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...'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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...