DRINK

There's a reason I'm taking this trip

With straight bourbon and stiff upper lip

It's to do what it takes,

To quiet these shakes.

For my wife says I must get a grip.

I'd hoped this trip might kill the pain

Without eating too much of my brain

The beer's not so bad,

but there's better I've had,

Back when I was considered sane.

Some dude asked me "Are you a wino?"

I paused and I thought and said, "Why no"

"But I saw you last night,

talking loose, acting tight,

You're the wino and that is how I know!"

Lately my dreams have been shrinking

I'm afraid that my thinking is stinking

My paychecks are smaller,

I'm to my last dollar,

Yet it seems i'm progressing in drinking!

You must admit I have persistence

And have dealt with your nagging insistence

That I give up the bottle,

but I'm going full-throttle,

So I need not your A.A. assistance

I may be a sot I confess

I have not teetotaler success

Just to even the score,

I won't drink anymore,

but at least I won't drink any less!!

If I felt like I did on my first

I would not have unquenchable thirst

For the sauce as I do,

but I ask, "Wouldn't you?"

If you gulped the stuff that you once nursed?

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