People sometimes ask me
Why do I keep drinking
When I've been told so
Many times that it
Could kill me.
Well, you know
Some people just don't
Understand, if drink could
Kill me, it doesn't mean a
Thing, because I sure as
Hell couldn't live without it.
Me and the world just don't
Get along unless there's one
Thing or another flowing
Through my bloodstream
And although I know that
Alcohol can be harmful, it
Doesn't kill you as easily
As drugs.
I have tried many
Different drugs many
Different times, I tried heroin
For over 10 years, but still I
Keep coming on back to
My favourite, it's alcohol and
It always will be, it just helps
You through so many things.
If you're happy you drink to
Celebrate, if you are unhappy
You drink to commiserate
Or you just drink because
There's nothing else to do.
Life would be so boring without
alcohol.
Believe me I've tried
It.
I don't want to again.
Ian Lewis Copestick is a 46 year old writer ( I prefer that term to poet ) from Stoke on Trent, England. I spend most of my life sitting, thinking then sometimes writing. I have been published in Anti Heroin Chic, the Dope Fiend Daily, Outlaw Poetry, Synchronized Chaos, the Rye Whiskey Review, Medusa's Kitchen and Horror Sleaze Trash
