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Set Em Up Joe

Audio Recordings / tagged Alcohol, Friends, Influence, Sugar, Vices / November 20, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Some sweets
for my sweet diabetic pals

Booze for the livers
to the last of their livers

The usual for me
I’ll have what they’re having

Cousin Wayne

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Alcohol, Regret / October 7, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When Wayne was thirteen
he had the finest blondest hair
the finest features and the finest mind
of all the cousins round

A city boy and cooler about everything than us
until we took him hunting

When his first shot hit the rabbit
he ran and cried and held it till it died

At eighteen he quit school with A grades
a month before graduation to get a jump on a job
met a girl and bragged of achievement on first date

Over achievement it turned out to be
quick marriage, quick, two children, three

Army for security, liquor for the pain
it was twenty years before I saw him again

He was in a downstairs bar
sitting there as coarse and thick as adobe brick

I wanted to roll it all back
reach in for the lost fineness and yank it all inside out

And hold him like the rabbit when he cried
still innocent when it died

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Supper with the Phd

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Alcohol, Alcoholism, Coping, Death, Genius, Suicide / September 25, 2023 / 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

Long Hot Saskatchewan Summer Haiku 4

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Alcohol / July 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Beer is all gone
road weaves our way home
morning comes soon

Jerry Jeff’s Gettin’ By

Audio Recordings / tagged Alcohol, Jerry Jeff Walker, Life, Music / June 30, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Jerry Jeff sings about
Lettin'
the high times carry the low

And you expect it musta
took a lot of liquor and life
to write a line like that

And there's a million people
out there listening
to him sing it just for me

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Dark Side of Oahu

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Alcohol, Danger, Hawaii / March 22, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are bars down by the docks
with no umbrellas in the drinks

There are dark eyes in the smoke
that filet you like a fish

Play the wrong song on the jukebox
they turn silent on you as a shark

Me and Buff, college smartass dumb
swimming far beyond our depth

Alive because they must have thought
Too small, let's throw them back

Cousin Wayne

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Alcohol, Regret / April 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When Wayne was thirteen
he had the finest blondest hair
the finest features and the finest mind
of all the cousins round

A city boy and cooler about everything than all of us
until we took him hunting

When his first shot hit the rabbit
he ran and cried and held it till it died

At eighteen he quit school with A grades
a month before graduation to get a jump on a job
met a girl and bragged of achievement on first date

Over achievement it turned out to be
quick marriage, quick, two children, three

Army for security, liquor for the pain
it was twenty years before I saw him again

He was in a downstairs bar
sitting there as coarse and thick as adobe brick

I wanted to roll it all back
reach in for the lost fineness and yank it all inside out

And hold him like the rabbit when he cried
still innocent when it died

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Green Beer and Ham

Audio Recordings, Limerick / tagged Alcohol, Ireland, St Patrick / March 18, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the morning after St. Patrick’s day
lasses and lads have been known to say

I’m feeling quite faint
and where is that saint

to chase the snakes once more away

(In Ireland, lass and lad are used regardless of age)

Cousin Wayne

Audio Recordings, Family, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Alcohol, Regret / August 31, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When Wayne was thirteen
he had the finest blondest hair
and the finest features and the finest mind of all the cousins round
A city boy and cooler about everything than all of us until we took him hunting
When his first shot hit the rabbit
he ran and cried and held it till it died
At eighteen he quit school with A grades to get a jump on a job
met a girl and bragged of achievement on first date
Over achievement it turned out to be
quick marriage, quick, two children, three
Army for security, liquor for the pain
it was twenty years before I saw him again.
He was in a downstairs bar
sitting there as coarse and thick as adobe brick
I wanted to roll it all back
reach in for the lost fineness and yank it all inside out
And hold him like the rabbit when he cried
still innocent when it died

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

1 Reply

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