POETRY: I’M SO DRUNK IT’S KILLING YOU! BY PAUL TRISTRAM

He had piss all down the left-hand side of his jeans,

stamping his foot in rhythm whilst singing

“Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow’s out of sight!”

with a toothless smile and a twinkle in his eye one minute

and then the next he was punching the wall jukebox

and primal screaming the name “Carol!” amid anguished groans.

As they carried him out past us, waste high and horizontal

he was yelling at the top of his voice “I’m so drunk it’s killing you!”

It was the most bizarre, funny and scary thing I had seen in ages,

I shook my head, smiled and decided to get almost as drunk as him.

Written by Paul Tristram

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