The Morning After — response to W.B. Yeats ‘A Drinking Song’

W.B. Yeats’ A Drinking Song:

Wine comes in at the mouth

and loves  come in at the eye

That’s all we know for truth,

Before we grow old and die.

I lift the glass to my mouth,

I look at you, and sigh.

My response:

The Morning After

Wine’s taste tingles on the tongue

and love’s lingers in the mind;

Both sweeter when you’re young

and quickly left behind —

Now I’m older, and hungover —

From which, I can’t decide.