July

Let’s get drunk and forget our worries. Let’s spill our troubles to the universe in inebriated song. The veil over independence has been drawn back and the face is unknown to us. Let’s not celebrate this myth. Let’s exercise the freedom we have: hushed rebellion against our outrage—if just for one hour, one night. I…

We Drink

we drink each Friday night: we drink to forget the dead end jobs that pay our bills we drink to laugh, though we sometimes cry we drink for courage we drink to slough off this weight we carry for people who do not have food or water or alcohol to forget. we forget for a…