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How To Laugh and Be Happy When Not Drinking


by Jerry Ratch


 

That is the question,

not to be or not to be

 

Life, death, whether to be,

all that is superfluous

in the face of laughter

and how to achieve it

under extraordinary circumstances

like not drinking anymore

 

I'm afraid not all the alcoholics

are completely anonymous

 

and I remember them saying

when the economy went south

they were sleeping in their Porsches

 

Well, those must have been the

good times, because now

no Porsches, no porches,

no patch of weed even

 

Just how far south

do you have to go nowadays?

I'm not looking for any

penguins for my soup

 

I heard there was a run

on chow fun

because the ex-alcoholics

will try anything for a laugh

 

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