04-15-2019, 10:36 AM
Fleeting Sobriety
Should I finish my whisky on the rocks
to fuel this poem about temperance?
Maybe, between sips, mention Eliot Ness'
brown bagged lunch
and how his wife's note
was probably a movie prop,
that the real man died
in debt, remarried, rumoured an alcoholic,
but Capone ate his wife's spaghetti-
her loyal, while someone else's syphilis
slowly ended what Ness started.
But this was supposed to deal with temperance
not dwell on the type of human folly
most prefer to blame on alcohol.
Should I finish my whisky on the rocks
to fuel this poem about temperance?
Maybe, between sips, mention Eliot Ness'
brown bagged lunch
and how his wife's note
was probably a movie prop,
that the real man died
in debt, remarried, rumoured an alcoholic,
but Capone ate his wife's spaghetti-
her loyal, while someone else's syphilis
slowly ended what Ness started.
But this was supposed to deal with temperance
not dwell on the type of human folly
most prefer to blame on alcohol.
Time is the best editor.