A Poet Walks Into a Bar . . .

[butters]

of all the bars in all the world...

well-met, you fonts of creativity, you sparks of wonder, you dregs of... yeah, well, hi! *long cold glass of something, please, light on the alcohol, tall on the fizz, thnx*

 

[HarryHill]

..
That's a paraphrase, Cider House Rules. Justapple juice and some nibbles. I'm buying.

 

[williamesquire]

No Peas huh, better make it a coffee
black please.
I'm off the booze.
I quit until I make a million bucks.
I found in life that alcohol made me complacent.
I miss it badly.
Poetry is a diversion as much as an obsession.
I've been at this caper for three years or so and still don't know the difference between a series of connected thoughts and verse. Whats the G.O?

 

[todski28]

No Peas huh, better make it a coffee
black please.
I'm off the booze.
I quit until I make a million bucks.
I found in life that alcohol made me complacent.
I miss it badly.
Poetry is a diversion as much as an obsession.
I've been at this caper for three years or so and still don't know the difference between a series of connected thoughts and verse. Whats the G.O?

I’ve been playing with magic markers and crayons for 7 years and I still don’t have a damn clue!

 

[Lyricalli]

I’ve been playing with magic markers and crayons for 7 years and I still don’t have a damn clue!

Next time, try mayonnaise.

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Barkeep, how's your Mai Tai? I want something that tastes like summer somewhere else.

 

[williamesquire]

Next time, try mayonnaise.

I see what your saying, thoughts are real and verse is disconnected from reality.

Is that why poets like booze so much because it helps them avoid reality?

 

[Lyricalli]

I see what your saying, thoughts are real and verse is disconnected from reality.

Is that why poets like booze so much because it helps them avoid reality?

I'm sure poets like booze for all the same reasons that anyone else likes booze.

Though, booze does seem to have a way of making some fancy themselves wordsmiths when they might not otherwise.

 

[Piscator]

No Peas huh, better make it a coffee
black please.
I'm off the booze.
I quit until I make a million bucks.
I found in life that alcohol made me complacent.
I miss it badly.
Poetry is a diversion as much as an obsession.
I've been at this caper for three years or so and still don't know the difference between a series of connected thoughts and verse. Whats the G.O?

If poetry becomes an obsession
it's much more than a diversion
and forget the million bucks.

 

[Piscator]

Next time, try mayonnaise.

Mayo, a bit of tarragon, good tomatoes
and thick sliced crispy bacon
you just destroyed my
inner vagan.

 

[butters]

*pulls up a stool*

now, did someone mention bacon??? hmmn????

if bacon be
the devil's work
my soul
my soul
is lost

 

[williamesquire]

I'm sure poets like booze for all the same reasons that anyone else likes booze.

Though, booze does seem to have a way of making some fancy themselves wordsmiths when they might not otherwise.

Yeah its a pleasure sure enough nothing like getting slowly sloshed while enjoying a fine meal or fine music or both. One of my fondest memories is enjoying port and dark chocolate in front of a roaring fire after a nice meal. Say does a tipple or two improve the hearing of poetry I wonder? Or does it obscure or supplant meaning?

Self delusion is a tragic thing, hopefully my abstinence endows me with only sufficient self confidence.

 

[williamesquire]

If poetry becomes an obsession
it's much more than a diversion
and forget the million bucks.

Thanks for the critique. Its a truly valuable thing to be able to give and take critique. I think I see where you're coming from, one of the definitions for diversion is "past time" and then the line seems illogical. But "past time" is not the only definition for diversion and its this other meaning that I used. The one that means "the act of turning aside". I mean that writing is an act of turning aside from alcohol as much as it an act of obsessive motivation. I simply meant that I have two good reasons for writing one is obsession and the other is as a diversion from alcohol from where I sit these are equal in degree.

Maybe you should give up booze and maybe you'd see where I'm coming from.

Give up on a million bucks!?!? Nah I just imagine how sweet that bubbly will be when I have a million bucks.... sweeter
Wait a minute are you suggesting that because you think I'll never make it? Or that money isn't important?

 

[HarryHill]

..
Lays out, snacks, fills balloons.

It's the brides last single night,
tomorrow her love she'll join,
but tonight's just for mates,
both sinners and saints,
to say goodbye to evenings alone.

So join we all to toast your luck.
Cheers, bars open; what's your pleasure?

 

[butters]

something light, green-tasting, long and fizzy pls


here's to mona and mr mona... *raises glass* covid's not invited to this party and i wish you both every possible happiness!

 

[HarryHill]

something light, green-tasting, long and fizzy pls


here's to mona and mr mona... *raises glass* covid's not invited to this party and i wish you both every possible happiness!

..
Here's a green screwdriver for you. adds soda water

 

[Lyricalli]

What do you have that's a bit crisp and summer, perhaps with some pineapple?

Congrats to whomever is being congratulated. Yay for love! I'll drink to that.

And I could really use a drink...







/sits in the corner mumbling something about vultures/

 

[Piscator]

When we'd come down from Kilimanjaro, and were buying beers for our guides and porters, they requested warm beer,something I still don't understand.

But, for me, in the mid-summer doldrums,an ice cold IPA truly hits the spot.

Hopping to it now, congrats to those for whom congrats are due, condolences to the rest of us.

Down the hatch.

 

[HarryHill]

What do you have that's a bit crisp and summer, perhaps with some pineapple?

Congrats to whomever is being congratulated. Yay for love! I'll drink to that.

And I could really use a drink...
..
Pineapple rum slushy for you :
Just a friend over in the blurt thread
..
/sits in the corner mumbling something about vultures/

When we'd come down from Kilimanjaro, and were buying beers for our guides and porters, they requested warm beer,something I still don't understand.

But, for me, in the mid-summer doldrums,an ice cold IPA truly hits the spot.

Hopping to it now, congrats to those for whom congrats are due, condolences to the rest of us.

Down the hatch.

..
Cheers! IPA's might be my fav now

 

[Lyricalli]

..
Pineapple rum slushy for you :
Just a friend over in the blurt thread
..

Oh, how lovely. I remember her.

Pineapple rum slushy sounds just about perfect, too. I may have to try and make myself one of those. Thanks, Harry!

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Harry I've put your Links to stop you going crazy as a sticky so it doesn't get lost, I hope that's ok with you.
Now for my woes. I can't get into my poems via the link on my signature soooooo silly question time, how do I get into my signature? I know, I know I should know lol but it's been years since I last did and I've forgotten! So HELP!!

 

[butters]

Harry I've put your Links to stop you going crazy as a sticky so it doesn't get lost, I hope that's ok with you.
Now for my woes. I can't get into my poems via the link on my signature soooooo silly question time, how do I get into my signature? I know, I know I should know lol but it's been years since I last did and I've forgotten! So HELP!!

do you mean to access the text and change it/renew the link what have you?

top of the page, user CP, edit signature

 

[HarryHill]

do you mean to access the text and change it/renew the link what have you?

top of the page, user CP, edit signature

..
Yep, I've been posting quotes from my new story there. Free drinks for whoever reads and comments!

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I found it already thanks but I need to change it, so where do I find the submissions page? The nice blue one like Harry has at the bottom of his signature.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Forget that found it!! Hurray the drinks are on me!!

 

[HarryHill]

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Whisky shots please Annie; keep them coming.