Weird Wednesday Love Poem No. 7
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We broke up
thirty-three days,
eight hours, and
twenty-six minutes
ago.
I have vomited
nineteen times
since then.
If I just keep drinking
this particular whiskey
you liked so much -
you know,
the one they age
in barrels on boats,
the one you used to tell stories about,
laughing,
so beautiful
when your head was thrown back
and your hair was brushing
against my thighs,
and you would make up
all these fantastic
tales of the sea,
how far
this sip
this sip
this sip
had traveled
and how one day
we would travel to all those places too -
that one.
This whiskey
with the ship on the outside of the bottle
and the way you loved me
drowned at the bottom.
I figure
if I just keep drinking it
and vomiting
at this rate,
I should probably
be emptied
of every last drop of you
by December.
Just in time
for the winter winds
to bluster me
back out to sea.