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Poetry: Drinking

I've watched your wife and children drown
In that bottle.

I've seen your life slip away with every swig
from that bottle.

I've felt the liquid-fire anger you try to quench
with that bottle.

I've seen you empty many glasses and several lives
from that bottle.

I hope you don't meet your end
in that bottle.

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