A Bitter New Year

self-administered stupor -
24 hour ethanol virus 

A short trip to the local,
a postmodern film-clip

blurred sound, uncertain vision
hand-held camera/glass

reality teasing the numb,
   flitting in    and out

dumb childlike inebriate

One drink remembered
one return trip not
a forgotten awkward ascent
to embrace a porcelain friend
who wouldn’t stay still,
tormenting like the harpies
who leer with merry mockery,
standover merchants of mirth
greeting anothers bitter New Year