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there was a little monkey he just loved a ***
everywhere he went he just loved a drag
then the law it changed and smoking made a curse
banned from smoking in the pubs making matters worse
monkey wasnt happy felt he was denied
the only place he could smoke was when he went outside
monkey wasnt done he would have is say
protesting in the pubs for a smoking day
this it didnt work they kept up the ban
monkey wasnt happy a disappointed man
so monkey he gave up forgot about his frolic
turned his mind to drink and became an alcholic
Grace Ann Sep 2018
AA
I was three years old standing barefoot on the screened in porch in the summer heat
you had a beer in your hand with condensation wetting your skin
I asked and you answered
My first sip of alcohol fascinated my three year old self
Bubbles

I was six and wearing a white dress walking next to a boy in a suit down a church aisle
Eyes fixated on the moment I would grow in my faith
First communion came with excitement to me
I tasted church wine for the first time
Genisis

I was twelve and at Christmas dinner with extended family
table set makeshift bar locked eyes with mine
You poured me a glass of red
a special occasion you said
Acceptance

I was fourteen then fifteen then sixteen
Every week a glass of wine with dinner
A beer in the summer
it complemented the steak
You taught me to drink at home to know my limits
To protect me from going crazy when I left home
Normality

I was eighteen and a two-time college dropout
The wine on the counter and a constant supply of liquor comforting
A stressful day ended with a numbing to my feelings
A glass away from silence in my head
and an easy night of sleep from being mixed with my medications
Routine

I was twenty when I realized a drink would turn into a few
and a few would turn into asleep on the floor
or vomiting and sitting in the shower for hours
I was twenty when I realized it took more to get me tipsy than it used to
that I needed to drink and when I did I wouldn't stop
because what was the point unless you were drunk
I was twenty when I started to jokingly call myself an alcholic
I was twenty when my friends dropped the joking part
I was twenty and tipsy and unable to legally drink and I had already become what everyone else in my family denied being

I blame you
the three year old with a fascination of forbidden things
the six year old who had an intrigue in the taste of communion wine
the twelve year old who accepted the drink from her grandfather's ***** breath every holiday dinner
the teenager who let herself drink at home in the presence of her parents who thought it would help prevent the inevitable
the eighteen year old who learned the hard way life was a much crueler teacher than school and accepted the easy access to numbness
I blame you for the twenty year old I have become
Jason Mar 11
I have the soul of a poet, the heart of the sea,
I drink sparkling cheap Moet, so I don't see.

The grimness and darkness, of the world that I live in,
The cry of the fledglings with unspun wings.

The kind looks on faces with many deep wrinkles,
Hear the gentle sweet buzzing of the hundreds of bees.

I drink down the serum designed by the gods, to make my brain never to work,
But the hate and the anger, the sadness and madness, leaves me tossing until I come back to birth.

So I pick up the pen, the paper the journal with the fury of one who see's what is,
The wraps and the chains, strapped fast to our brains, that once we shake off is eternal bliss.

I preach hate and pain, from a broken heart, that I smashed into smithereens,
The love I feel scares me so I take back the anger, knowing that without would be so serene.

So I pick up the bottle, instead of the pen, knowing that it will kiss me goodnight,
Then I put down the bottle, the smoke and the paper, the pen gives me the will to continue the fight.
Alex McQuate May 2022
Mournful tunes,
Sorrowful news,
There is a savage grace at work in one who can sink below the lowest depths of hell and come back up with such a cautionary diamond,
Simmering rage boiling beneath calm water surfaces,
Dealing with their own past perdition in stride.
Kendra Gibson Feb 2013
She says she's an alcholic
while she holds her
invisible
bottle of gin.
Hello Daisies Nov 2018
today i am love sick
Yesterday i was reckless
This year i am entirely lost

I let my heart break so quick
I have been crying like a complete mess
My heart was frozen into a frost

I laughed when told to enjoy these moments
I cried when told these would be my best years
I broke because this has been the worst year of all

But now in this car the night soothes the torment
Because i realize from this hell trip that  I lived through so many fears
I braved through it and got up after every fall

No one would understand the terror in my mind
The sadness in my soul
The feeling of having your gut constantly churn

Sometimes i stop and feel  growth changing within my mind
I'm learning to let awful things go
Alanis morrisette really was right when she said you live and you learn

I am so reckless
I'm currently deeply heartbroken
A rising alcholic with noone to call my own
Crying at every failure


But I'll look back at this and learn it's ok to be a mess
Having my heart broke made my eyes open
I wanted to live life and I'm being shown
That to have fun and love I'll have to often be a total failure
Ive been going through so very much. Very deoressed and stressed. Possibly worst year if my life. But i keep going and i dont know how. Im terrified it'll get worse but after this trip i had i realized some things. The trip was my last hope for something good to happen. While it didnt work out that way it taught me to let things go and to be ok with being reckless right now. Just don't go too far. And that no matter what i can be strong. Im still finding myself
i forgot i wrote a poem and re-posted poems
by others onto my page
and i'm thinking about social media
Descartes
and tomorrow
i'm going to work the Sam Fender concert
and don't know Sam Fender
but i know the Fender guitar
and that's not cliche:
that's only language of a 39er
a 39 year old man
i am a man
not a child i think she knows that or perhaps
R. is a miracle when she conceived her
and it is as if that's transcendental
i think i could be her son
with pure biology reigned
she is 18 years older than me
and R is 14... so work out why i'm 39...

now i also know Sam Fender
and i'm Seventeen Going Under
and i will have to buy R a t-shirt
that's like postcards from my life
but more
just buying t-shirts
i think those are sails for the draft
a pieced together magic carpet
on the sea
when you tell the sea to be air
the magic carpet changes...

i was at Wimbledon and i think i'm saying
goodbye
and i said so to my grandmother
and my uncle and the dead
and now i'm saying goodbye to my mother
and father and i don't think there are
regrets
when i went mad aged 21
and thought i was a poet
so i still think now
with interests in IT
politics and human and life
and robots now too
so i thought about social media
and authenticity and profilicity:
self-profiling for the public
like one's own CCTV
so not so very oppressive but if you
can live a life as a couch potato
on the sofa only watching t.v.
or living a moment in life
like the Wimbledon Championship
in the interactive web of CCTV
Plato's Cave
the people behind the shadows
the security officers
at events
the membrane of a humanity coming together
unlike in the **** of democracy
the democracy that ****** us off
and not in the monarch's and the patriarch's arms
saying to you:
R i'm so ******* weird i think
this reality is weird
and it's not like i like the idea of a wife
that will contest who will need
my care and being there
when both mother and my wife ask
when they might be nearing the end:
oh what a task: woman, you gave me:
perhaps JEsus Christ had it easier
with a cross... than carrying a woman
like Atlas... on the back...
perhaps it would have been easier
to Carry the Cross...
i think it would be much easier
to carry the cross with christ
than it would be to carry or walk feet-mind
with woman:
and the definitely there: devil...
Heidegger's Da-Sein
i mean this energy such a fixation on autism and
philosophical-solipsism
like stoicism
like cynicism
but solipsism was not founded by any Greek
famous philosopher...
there was no school of Solipsism:
there emerged Sophia:
with two words
Theosophism Theosophy...
ancient school of Solipsism
is a school of thought that makes stoicism
and cynicism a rhetorical tools
to equate a neutral ground for the mind to take root
and be give birth to a tree later
a leaf: BELIEF: be-life
believe... and belief... now believe! i'll taunt you!
be-life! with the devil of da-sein!
a life! and give me the fruit of your mind
give me a bite of your ego...
your egg
perhaps i will give you an egg
rather than an apple
i will be the devil that will give you the egg
a magical tree
that grows on a tree
like money
i will be this devil
i will give you an egg from a tree
i will say it's a fruit...
and i will leave you there...
that would be my only life...

the thoughts would get me drunk when coupled with emotions-grief-like-drugs....

had to think of a title...
but that would be my genesis story:
i would pluck an egg from a tree
and that would be the forbidden tree
i would pluck an egg from a tree
after having pressed two apples
into a cider and got tipsy and sniffed
some Polish grass from the field
i will be dementia riddled
then i'll eat some magic mushrooms and i will
go on fighting while my grandfather
didn't have the spirit of adventure
and died by the television
and penitent recovering alcholic
but i have the spirit of adventure
and fair enough he was like a pillar
of enough words to tease my IQ over...

             but i woke up with a dream
where i was dreaming....
where i was swimming
and kicking my legs
and my mind apart
a funny thought
that wasn't a dream
a dream of reflexes and delayed reflections
and the dynamic of the reflexive mind
in old age
and not the reflective mind in old
that allows memory to sweep and seep in
and distort that not even keeping up
with the news and daily crosswords
and keeping up with soap operas doesn't help...
the boss calls me up and says he wants me to get
there early like... 11am?
Tony from E.E.S. calls me...
                wait wait... just working football stadiums
and dealing with thugs
now is working at Wimbledon...
i passed by Vallorie...
this old woman i work with
so i guess now there will be
whispers
how did Matthew get to work at Wimbledon...
how did Matthew get a job at
Wimbledon and
doing! **** me! he's on the RESPONSE TEAM...
but did you see how he was dressed?
he took: SMART-CASUAL to the next level!
he took how he dressed! to the next level!
oh simple joy like
i have the fur of a fox and a hyena...
no no!
don't come for 11am...
your sign in is for 1pm.... but just come after noon...
an hour before the before time...

        little world literature: not exactly feeling like goo-
but at least feel good like glue:
at least i'm keeping the words intact and i
try to forget:
if the problem of Europe's the continent
that funnels the movement of people against
the other continents
then treat Europe in that Special Place
as being the Only Temporal Continent
Europe is not a Spatial Continent:
Asia moves through
Africa moves through
sons... daughters!
we have created our freedom!
let us love Europe
when we move away
and come back and leave grand
train stations
let's be the IDIOM LIBERALISM-AWAY
and Conservatism-ELSE...

but Europe can be a pseudo-Continent
like Israel is a pseudo-Arab country
in the middle east....
Africa stays...
there was never really a united Europe
that's the problem
there can only be a united
America-Africa-Australia-America:
666!
AAAA!
like             ASIA!
America America North South
two almost continent
like when South America drifted from
Africa
and somehow attached
itself to the umbilical chord
of Mexico...
and north american
but yes.... AMERICA! AFRICA! AUSTRALIA! ASIA!
and Europe is not really a continent
if
only if you think of Russia and Poland
and a people that moved the least
that is the only little Poland
i think just that part of land is worth
the argument of the indigineous people
of the continent....
the rest is a fluid mix of people from
the words of the Roman Empire...
the English were once Kelts...
ok oh ok chop chop! get moving
but the people of the Great Migration
didn't actually move that far
the Poles were the laziest
they lay in a field having left
the great dark forest of your yet
ability to feld
and give honey manna from the sun...
but the other people moved so far apart
Europe can't be a spatial continent
Europe must be an Eternal Component
and part Continent:
but the Vatican and Lucifer's Venice....
the Jewish Venice...
i am yet to see Rome....
and perhaps i go i will win something
and have enough free money
to have a weekend in Rome
like a Pope
like not looking for love
like already bein married
big G...
i mean to see Rome like a lowly oh shoe
and crimson glaring i do just
want to be alone and lastly say goodbye
to Europe and leave it with peace...
oh i believe it took the French
enough inbreeding moments to craft the cheese:
and only in Europe:
but what the **** will you do
when America-Africa-Asia-Australia
are treating Europe like a *******...
sort of happy time travel
existential disneyland
i mean we can go back
to the farmers of Ukraine
and Russia just said!
you ******* rebel! against Europe!
i support you all the way!
this is how Russia loves Ukraine
and makes jokes of Europe!
give me your political correctness strip naked
to a transgender liberal pseudo apocalypse
punk-clown-goth...
me n ot sober?
this is the spirit of Poland rebelling
at sniffing the sick
and i know why there's a war in Ukraine:
the Slavic people would rather fight against
themselves
than succumb to an octopus capitalism
not the sort of communism
and it's a mind virus
post-capitalistic
i hope you don't see it my way...
but it's a mind virus
the great descent of either god or devil
or neither...
just how offspring behave when born into
polar opposites:
i want to leave Europe like a sterile ground...
the road was paved from Chernbyll
and how did my psyche collapse
i think
forget
how many times was
an attempt made on my life
i was told of
i was asked to be killed
from birth
in the hospital almost choked to death
etc.
pain is memory blocker:
i want to forget certain things
and if i keep to my athletic of writing
i will not think of much....

but it hurt so much that i forgot
being online last night...
i forgot that i was online
i think that's the realization of the ills
of this exposure...
jumping bait: spider-carrot...

who beside a serpent
a tiger
a monkey said
to another monkey:
a mushroom
a hallucinogenic ****
perhaps it was a story of
Adam and Adam or
how does it go:
Adam and Steve....
i think it was a hallucinogenic
**** *******
whether byproduct is actual
homosexuality
then yeah
once upon a time
there was cohesion of genius
and that's why the pyramids were
built
and only the Eiffel tower was built
as tall if not taller after...

because there was no Competition
of the Solipsistic School:
which was covert:
kept secret by the highest Caste of the Mantra
of Solipsism:
the Retards and Broken Hold our Census...
our Herald for Nations and Continents...

there was a congregation of genius and intellect:
which later became coupled with inequality of woman's
choices:
because the autism Copernicus
and the genius of Galileo
for rhetoric... now call it the Copernican-Galilean
coupling: eternal...
think how it happened when
intelligent minds worked together
before the glut of the people who need to talk...

but Europe can't remain a stable place:
too many ants in their pants states...
how many people in Europe haven't moved
at all...
can we treat Europe like
we treat the London Underground...
i mean:
we can be Europeans in Africa
like the South Africans
and at least we know what went
wrong under Communism and
what happened right in South Africa...
at least we know how post-Colonial states...
better wonder about South Africa
than being so ***-buckled-bugged
upon the Collapse of the British Empire
i am still grieving the Partition of
the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
i'd rather think of post-colonialism and the
argument for South Africa...
if the problem of immigration from Africa
into Europe
then i am the first....
SALUTE! MATEUSZ KONRAD ELERT
i petition for our claim to South Africa...
i want a piece of Africa...
i want my land!
come into Europe!
i want South Africa back...
you didn't live here: ******! too cold! too cold!
i want a post-Europe back:
can i have the South African lands back...
you didn't live in south africa: niggz...
you didn't live in south africa!
i want my south africa back!
you give me back south africa
so i can take the french, the english,
the italians the spanish the germans....
some weird greeks...
but the greeks are in with the Jews
and the Turks... ok...
we not taking them....
no Scandinavians...
they were too ugly to the English
the Slavs are keeping the Scandinavians...
we are the people of the "continent"
you gave us Rome and Jupiter and London
you *******...
let us curate it... like perfection:
don't worry about who delivers what kangaroo
and what raccoon...
          
      but i need my south africa back, mate...
i need my part of the continent:
sure thing: you come here with the idiot arabs
and their sand-dusters of machines vroom vroom
like idiot idea of conquest
forgot to mention:
oh yeah... Arabia is not treated like a continent:
sub-continent thinking
unlike India
that's considered a sub-continent:
Arabia is not deemed a sub-continent
of Asia...
because... it's *******... a later starter...
the easy **** with sand under your *******
until the Jews comes and you repay Jews
by sending them to the Germans...
well... to the Poles... but then obviously
you did some so bad that
a Polish boy and a Jewish girl
heard about it or something
so ******
the Germans were the tools of the deeds
but the Arabs were the masterminds
of the Holocaust
and i guess the origins of Israel is rather
Unique it's a cognitive conundrum
a democracy a nation a people
agreeing then
disagreeing yet still banding together...
oh yeah: war in Ukraine?
of course the Ukrainians that they are
getting so cheap
it's like Russia laughing:
guess who the **** we are rearming...
we're getting ready to invade...
you idiots just have us weapons!
and the Poles are like...
are we here, ready... for the rollercoaster?
are we going to war?!
wow!
what sympathy for Ukraine:
the amount of weapons they are getting
idiots are arming their enemy
i mean: RETARDO LASSO! RAPHEL ROSSO TED
LASSO!

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