Best Hard Liquor Poems

This won't be a pretty picture, but I'm going to use this paper to put my art on
I'm not heartless, let me show you where...

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It sits back and waits, it lives in your soul.
It slams you and breaks you when you finally feel whole.
It’s been so long since you’ve...

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An intense aroma from Mother's lilac bushes
satiate the air through our open kitchen window
Robins perched on the rusty downspout
falling from our old front porch,
whistling their...

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Faces come at me as stricken
as graveyard moons.

The supermarket hangs heavy,
laden as it is with neon anchors.
The aisles are runways for empty eyes,
a few sections...

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I am Kerris Hakim, bartender trade by night.  Here at Fahrenheit Lounge I've heard
Stories of patrons who dared to live, and lovers who had...

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Alcohol is a culturally accepted drug
Many drink alcohol at point in their lives
Some only drink during social occasions
Others may have an evening glass of wine

Moderate...

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The roaring twenties prohibition.
   Left violent crime to seize the day.
   An act of folly, no forward vision

   Of...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXVI

IF ever I had a Country with or without any " Wood " in the aching aping Film...

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My doctor’s warning is dour I say,
soon I could be lowered in clay,
so fat, sugar and salt,
hard liquor must halt -
I went to his funeral...

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Once in my room it’s time to check my weapon.  I can’t live without her.  Which her am I thinking about?  This...

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Mechanism 1
Part #1

The things outside of my window dry out my eyes. The egg that I saturated has mold on it. The moon decays when...

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Old boozed Willy was hostile and not ready to lose; 
a dirty face, a glowing nose...
only a firefighter's water hose
could have put out the heat...

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The Right Choices

There are those who have gladly made their drugs of choice.
Then, there are those whose choices took away their voice.   ...

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Alcoholsim...The Silent Killer 

When I have a problem...you are always there
I don’t have to wait...you always care 
I can cry into the bottle and tell...

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I've been up at night lately
I can't seem to fall asleep lately
I keep lying to myself lately

I know what it's like to lose somebody you...

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