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ONE BEER

I sat and drank the endless beer.
A cold dark bottle, it would not warm
And could not be drained.
Pull after pull,
Pull upon pull,
Like the epic story,
Like the perfect country song,
Like the love sonnet that
Breaks your heart because you
Feel all your lovers at once;
I sat and drank the thing,
More beer than my drunk father
And all my drunk grandfathers ever
Touched. And then
I put that sucker down full
And I walked away.



Thirst and Consequences © 2002 by Eric Green
Published by Doctor True House Press
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