NuevaJess's blog: "NuevaJess Poems"

ALCOHOLICQUAINTANCE

We’ve met before, yeah you know me

No, not by my given name

But by another nomenclature

I’m the bocci ball, the LIT

The cactus bowl and the purple motherfucker

Your disbelief is palpable as I go from smooth merlot to kamikaze

Then to chardonnay, don’t forget my strawberry marguerita and martini

I see you nudgin’ and catch the winkin’

Laying down the bets ‘cause you’re damn sure I’ll be pukin’

Step right up and don’t be shy

I’m suckin’ down illusions galore

Shootin’ in another gallery

Throwin’ down with my longtime lovers, maybe you’ve heard of them?

José and Jack, just to mention two

But my memory holds my many affairs with the speckled Goldschläger

Slow dancing sweetly through my veins

To the super-unleaded Jagermeister, a furious bump and grind to my senses

Yeah, you’ve seen me before

The one at the end of the bar

This ain’t no Blackjack table, but hit me again ‘cause I can’t go too far

See them all foldin’ ‘cause I’m goin’ all in

From Grey Goose to Gin and Juice

These lips do not discriminate

Rushing headlong to swallow tides of despair

The giddy laughter choking back bleeding tears

But hold on, this ain’t no pity party, I’ve come to celebrate

The hand toasts just as easy at the wedding

As to the strangers in the lounge

Your cheers simultaneously sustaining and unknowingly destroying me

As we all fall to the sleight of hand

Seeing nothing but this pirate’s wooden leg

And not the soul begging to be truly seen

No, this ain’t no magic trick

For I cannot disappear

If I was never really here