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Firewater
by Tyler Morello

Valentine’s Day.
She said no.
And not a nice no, a cold one.
The kind that makes the drive home feel like going to war.

Back then I lived in the basement
With a single egress window that would flood
When the downpour became a torrent.
I saw owl-gray clouds already.
Hell, the snow hadn’t even fully melted

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Rapid Fire
by Tyler Morello

Rapid fire shots spray sent from a minigun tongue.
The bullets bend,
Bouncing back to burn myself,
How many times may they ricochet?
Sometimes the shots are shots,
Hollow points poured into highballs
Designed for optimal damage,
Splintered insides, ruptured organs.
Sometimes the shots are words,
Recurrent impacts of burdens,

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Growing Up
by kyra turner

When I was young
I didn’t know the difference
Between beer and root beer
Vodka and water,
But now I know
I know when i see
my dad drinking his
“Root Beer” or when
I see my step-mom
Mixing Dr.pepper with water

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Mother
by J. E. Hardman

sitting in a shitty pub
talking to the random men
am i or my sister not enough?
stop expressing that you have it tough

your daughter is depressed
she sits at home alone
wallowing and losing self-esteem
you being sober feels like a dream


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The Thing About Drugs
by AP Writes

The things about drugs
is at first
you get high.
You never want to come down,
and then you do.
And maybe you didn’t love it at first,
but you start to chase
those 10 seconds of buoyancy,
that minute of relief,
those 10 minutes of anticipation,

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The Thing About Drugs
by AP Writes

The things about drugs
is at first
you get high.
You never want to come down,
and then you do.
And maybe you didn’t love it at first,
but you start to chase
those 10 seconds of buoyancy,
that minute of relief,
those 10 minutes of anticipation,

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My Best Friend
by AP Writes

From age 8, risky behavior was my best friend.
It started with cutting my wrists,
not for death but for the sensation.
It was like my brain took too long to register
the pain that I felt, so long that I sometimes didn’t feel it.
At age 11, I got drunk for the first time.
Felt a little silly, a little lighter. Everything made me laugh just a little harder.
At 11, I gave myself a tattoo. The burning sensation of a too dull needle
and not skin safe ink made me feel
ALIVE.

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The Ache Beneath the Thirst
by AP Writes

I was eleven
when I learned the burn of vodka
could quiet the voice in my head,
the one that kept asking
why am I still here?

I drank from a water bottle filled with Bicardi
in the back of 8th grade history,
and the teacher’s words became
white noise I floated in.

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Hall Pass
by AP Writes

We passed pens like rumors
in the bathroom,
smoke curling
into secrets we never wanted to keep.
It wasn’t rebellion,
more like trying to make the day
a little softer around the edges,
like padding a fall
we already knew was coming.


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Clammy Hands Around the Throat of a Bottle
by AP Writes

I was eleven
when the burn started to feel like home—
not the fire,
but the numb that followed.
The breathtaking silence
of my brain slowly
shutting down.

It wasn’t rebellion,
not really.

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  • AP Writes
    AP Writes (11 poems about Alcohol)
    March-SoCal
  • Tyler Morello
    Tyler Morello (2 poems about Alcohol)
    November 11, 1998 -- Richland, WA
  • Kathy JACK
    Kathy JACK (1 poem about Alcohol)
    August 29, 1980
  • Jacoline Boer
    Jacoline Boer (1 poems about Alcohol)
    March 1, 2004
  • J. E. Hardman
    J. E. Hardman (1 poems about Alcohol)
    Australia
  • kyra turner
    kyra turner (1 poems about Alcohol)
    December 11, 2007-Texas
  • Haych Nano
    Haych Nano (1 poems about Alcohol)
    Could write a trilogy on my life.