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Bottom of the Bottle Blues

January 14, 2014
By k.russell BRONZE, Fruitport, Michigan
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Drown your sorrows in liquor and chase it with something weak to numb the burn set deeply inside.

Your stomach

Your liver

Your sinful soul:
Contaminated by hasty decisions to stop the hurt.
Take a swig, and another, and another until the burn slowly passes by like ongoing traffic on the highway.
A nickel here a dollar there.
Wasted.
Just like you.

© Franziska K., Milford, CT

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I wrote this to emphasize the alcoholism.
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