Basking in my fatal flaw
Jack Daniels, rocks; no fruit no straw
Stocked in Perth, Rome and Sumatra
Drink of choice for Frank Sinatra

Drink the first, my mind starts numbing
Drink the second; poems start coming
Drink another, it’s my third
Oops; I just mis-spelled a word

Counting drinks that I have drunk
Thinking ’bout the thoughts I’ve thunk
Guess I’ve stretched the envelope
Cigarettes and booze and dope

Brain cells, liver, lungs and such
Slightly damaged; not too much
Life so lived has been effective
Living hard’s brought me perspective

Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”
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