Supper with the PhD

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Addiction, Alcohol / October 4, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I sit across from my friend
and watch as he drowns
his well developed brain

Every day after work
he puts another million
brain cell kittens in a sack
and takes them to the lake

It is not for me to judge

This small death each day
may well have kept him from
the larger choice his father made

And a diminished capacity may help
when listening to the daily news
or hanging out with poets

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1 thoughts on “Supper with the PhD”

wolfgang October 4, 2019 at 6:42 am

a very powerful poem!
i like the metaphor of “kittens in a sack”.

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