Fearless like vampires in the Sun
yes they possess a sleeve of heart;
Impress with all that charisma
devious from the very start;
Invisible fangs suck on your soul
inadmissible in a court of law;
Indestructible daywalker
mythical only to the bourgeois.
Yes, we do share our dreams,
of course we leave out the inadmissible,
the dark alcoves and the flying monkeys.
At breakfast I scratch in a notebook,
doodle questions like
why I feel a duck-billed platypus
is still nibbling my brain?
I remember then the billabong and the ‘jolly swagman’
all of whom party-crashed my REM-sleep.
I ask: did you dream in the night dear?
“Flamingo” she says tersely
as if I were prying too deep.
After a pause,
“You ran over my pet flamingo
with that big stupid truck of yours.”
I thoughtfully buttered some toast.
“It was the flying monkey’s”
I reply weakly.
Drinking, what does it do for you. Drinking does nothing for your life except make
it miserable. You hurt loved ones each time you drink the worse part of it all is
you know your doing it. Why do we drink, they say we drink for the fun of it. I didn’t
know car crashes were fun. Or, hurting people from drinking on a regular basis
was fun. You are basically committee murder when you drink. You kill yourself
inside and others around you. It may not show physically, but you show it to the
world. On the inside you’re hurting you try to ignore the pain, but the pain is
unbearable. So you drink to ignore the pain, but it only last for so long. Then that
inadmissible pain is back ten times worse then before you drank. They say that
man is bound to repeat it self, learn from past mistakes. Don’t drink you can save
so many lives; you save yourself and loved ones close to you. Your loved ones
will no longer feel the pain you cause from drinking. So for everyone’s sake don’t
drink it doesn’t do anything for you in the long run.
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