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Drunk

Kenneth DiMaggio

Beer to chase the bourbon
and bourbon to chase
the women but if only
they would run
from young men
that they tortured
& teased
like little boys
they got tired
of babysitting

And only when
these young men
absent without leave
from everything
except a bar with
a Frank Sinatra-filled
juke box and a fanatical
religious devotion
to the Boston Red Sox
promised to act like gentlemen

will the ladies
go with them
in lipstick-colored
cars that grin like
sharks
to a hilltop cemetery
and toast with warm beer
a dawning day
where nobody
will be sober enough
to work but will still need
to do something
more illegal or outrageous
before everybody
can truly become
drunk

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