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Poetry: Alcoholism

Pain

Sitting together
Yet apart
A round table
Between
Us.

I see a man
I do not recognize
He slumps in his chair
Stopping in the middle
Of an irrational sentence.

I curse
The empty bottle
In the desk drawer
For taking my friend away
And leaving this man instead.

I feel
His pain
And want to reach out
But the distance
Is too great.

So I just sit
With tears in my eyes
That refuse to fall
And I do
Nothing.

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