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I DRINK TO THEE EDGAR ALLAN POE
I drink to thee, Edgar Allan Poe
I drink to thee, F Scott Fitzgerald
I pour another drink
& keep this grand delusion alive.
It’s a little more than I can stand.
The words blur across the page
forming some unique, hectic rhythm
I sustain myself in this grandeur
with the bottle half full-half empty.
Not knowing the consequences
Misled by false advertisements
& watching opportunities slip by.
Recklessly pursuing the dream
crowded within this toxic aura
The flavor is bitter & wretched
but the words do flow out
and the pages are endlessly filled
and vision struggles to be realized
and hence the funk continues
as I drink to thee, Dylan Thomas
and I drink to thee, Brendan Behan.
Eternally this vice seems to heed
the inspiration for such verse.
I Read It 3X
I worship at the altar of poems
about poetry as process. Best is not
superlative enough.
I generally wear my
I generally wear my influences on my sleeve. I always hope that I can introduce people to literature and poetry that they may not already know. "We may not need poetry but men die miserably every day for lack of what they would find in it." William Carlos Williams.