Every Day a Shiny Bright New Day
it’s good not to drink
it’s good not to piss
in the sink & it’s good
not to think
the clarion ring
of a glass clinking
with ice good to hear it
fade into a past
you can’t sing
your dumb blues
is over. admit
it was always
borrowed. you paid
no dues you did
no time
but the time spent
sodden. what you thought
I think. your
higher power’s
drunk. god’s
the biggest alky
in the sky
the clouds are whiskey
sours passing by
Source: Poetry (September 2013)