After nightfall I hear the loud rumbling mufflers of youth
On their way to the hottest popular downtown nightclubs
Where they imbibe too much, dancing, cruising the night away
After midnight, the sotted fellows become more uncouth
Some girls pair up for safety’s sake and hail a waiting cab
A few hover with drinks in a carefully concealed booth
Waiting for a boy, a set of keys, to stagger over
Let them take advantage of his inexperienced youth
Did they spot earlier, ignored, one of those boorish chubs
Cruising the night away, where they imbibe too much, dancing
Slip away late in the morning like a successful sleuth.
Written March 18, 2021
Using abRacadabRa rhyme scheme
14-syllable per line
Categories:
sotted, dance, drink, night, youth,
Form: Rhyme
There was a young girl from Marfee
Her nickname was young cute blondie.
Teeth were all rotted
Men were all sotted
She's a firm forty-two double dee.
Categories:
sotted, satire,
Form: Limerick
here i sit,
having made a bet
that i could poem
off the shelf;
about what(?)
anything(?)
yes (help myself)
just had a cigarette
(comes to mind)
and in some alloted time
(while i be-sotted with menthol)
i'll write all;
phrase and blurb,
noun and verb,
penned to please
quick as a breeze
the question is should
my words be understood
if there-in be a dis-ease;
punctuation(?)
versus
intonation(?)
(a 'seeming' naught to please)
however, there is hope
within the scope
of script of readers feast,
hints and clues
from which to choose
(the most being the least)
to be smote
by.....another smoke
i'll have to run out of words, or,
by writing of the absurd
for the sake of it,
the shake of it,
turds
got to step out
for a minute
have a bout
with a finite
one less to live
one left to light
Categories:
sotted, abuse, age, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Sirens sounded secretly securing source. Strait sacks swooshed scamps scaling sensitive sentries (simply spayed seals) surveying surrounding staked spy sotted sham semicircular slipshod shelter. Snappy, Snippy, Snoopy suited Skyhawks surprisingly swooped somnambulant senseless scriveners. Sargent Salemander slipped shiny shimmering shellacked Sheppards Shutterfly sidearms sized simulated small skyscraper slinky, soapy, spooky squarely summoned, sentenced, sacrificed see swarthy Samsonite satraps Section SpecialOps.
Sometime soon savior snuck stealthily stealing sinful schleppers. sundown syzygy saw serendipitous, surreptitious, surreptitious segue-way shuttled safely Scottish shoals. Stigmatization stayed steady. Supplication statements swatted. Sole survivor swiftly spun self shaming sesquipedalian soliloquy. Sea side serenade soon spewed solipsism saving Slim Shady.
Sayonara seminal surfer swirling scarily sans sinister serpentine silent space.
Categories:
sotted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic
Tipsy moon alit
Staring down the oceans calm
sotted through the night
Categories:
sotted, moon,
Form: Haiku
* (Saturn is esoterically associated with the twelfth month of December)
… I feel your clutching of the wraiths (ghosts) suspended
between us, serenade of
echoes,
writhing,
blindly agape – and I crouching on the curb
watching the road
baptizing its secrets with curses dripping
incinerated from our lips,
intoxicating myself on
a promise of smoke clutching,
clutching at the road
flooded
sotted, unspoken wraiths…
… twisting within the heat….
* * *
… the swell of sky and earth
is in the curve of your belly and lips
I teased with delicacies until
I stuffed them in your mouth
while you smiled as widely
as the springtime laughing
through the trees
awaking and unashamed…
* * *
… did we have a child?
no, but we whelped giggles
as shy as a bridal veil,
as bold as robbers
accomplishing the theft
of marriage nostril to nostril…
Categories:
sotted, love
Form: Free verse