Are You Thirsty?
Below is a poem for the thirsty among us. Whenever you are depressed by the news–that is to say, daily I suspect– and need some inspiration as to what you might imbibe, I suggest tequila. I have been getting into the stuff after decades of, basically, wine only.
However the real message here is: you can write a poem about damned near anything. The below poem is included, along with about a hundred others, in a collection now in edit entitled Burn-Out. This book will publish at end of this year or very first part of next year. Meanwhile, here is a (nonserious) simpler.
Tequila
There is a song with that title
and everyone knows it
but the only word sung is
“tequila.”
That makes sense because
after all
what the hell IS it
and how do they get the cactus needles out of the bottle?
Why do liquor stores have to carry limes?
Why do anti-Semites stock Kosher salt?
Why does it go down so smooth
and mess with you in the morning?
Had some friends over
chips and salsa
70s music in the background
someone brought fruit salad which is a new pairing….
Tequila with a beer chaser!
Tequila with a Macon Villages chaser!
Tequila with a cigar chaser when everyone went home
with the wrong coats and too much tequila.
You can get Tequila on You Tube for free—
why still only one word?
Too drunk to think up another?
Who can remember?
Why am now I telling you one of my favorite throwaway lines:
“If you want to soar with the Eagles
you gotta learn to shit from the sky”?
Those of you who got it, bravo—
I woke up to a Tequila Sunrise this morning
and my woman was not there—again.
“Took another shot of courage”
but tequila in the morning is not recommended—trust me.
You may not find this poem very poetic but, then,
who’s to say?
Not you, you’re likely hung over.
But not as badly as me….
About The Author
Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig has been writing fiction and poetry all his life. The sources of his writings are of course his life experiences: growing up in ethnic New York City; attendance at two alleged bastions of Ivy League erudition; a long career in the law with its attendant exposures to people, business and technology; reading everything eclectic along with alleged classics of the Western canon; wide travel including a gig in the USSR in the ‘70s to bring legal briefs to refuseniks; teaching at three colleges and at a law school in Russia; raising two families in very different generations. Now, Honig has completed his first novel, Event, a thriller combining the international espionage style of John Le Carre with the gripping pace of novels by James Patterson. If you’d like to sign up to automatically receive my blog posts, please go to the Contact page and submit the form. Thank you!