Thursday, 8 November 2012

Vodka... Joel Brouwer


The Stoli bottle's frost melts to brilliance where I press my
fingers.
Evidence.
Proof I'm here, drunk in your lamp lit kitchen,
breathing up your rented air, no intention of leaving.
Our lust
squats blunt as a brick on the table between us.
We're low on
vocabulary.
We're vodkaquiet.
Vodkadeliquescent.
Vodka doesn't like theatrics: it walks into your midnight bedroom already
naked, slips in beside you, takes your shoulders in its icy hands
and shoves.
Is that a burglar at the window?
No, he lives with me, actually.
Well, let him in for Christ's sake, let's actually get this over with

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