Booze Abuse, Liquor Rancor

is it not perplexing how men
time and again turn to drink
despite misery from pilsen
and liquors that reek or stink?

is it not confounding why men
love to raise goblets in toast
in reckless, wanton abuse, when
sooner their livers will roast?


- between
clink and stink
is drink.

- between
sober and somber
is hang-over.

(c) Chito L. Aguilar