THERE’S A DRUNK UP AHEAD
i can see em coming
i try to hold off
i give all my money away
it’s 2 days up ahead
there’s days off from work
a perfect excuse
i get busy
i tell myself
not this timenot this time
too much work to do
to get drunkget wasted
go on a quick & nasty
2 day binge(found my beret in the bathtub
this morning
have no idea
how it got there)it always seems to happen
anyway…sometimes i give up
sometimes, like now,
i fight it.
KLAUS,
Where did you find this? it’s not bad, I certainly didn’t think
I wrote it, but you seem to allude that I did? When?
I certainly hope folks in that boat described therein
find a way out. Paddle for shore like crazy? Scream
for help.
I did.
It was 15 years ago today I wound up in the hospital very
sick and stayed 9 days. I remember Todd & Barbara Moore
brought me the book WHEN THE SACRED GIN MILL CLOSES.
Chokes me up to remember that. The gin mill, did indeed, close.
That’s a path for tougher souls than me.
I’m not down for that, anymore.
——Mark the Speller
18aug09