Facing the Music

The spirit bottles line the top of the bar

like prisoners in a death camp;

a shot here, a shot there —

their names forgotten by morning.

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One for the road, the ditch, the gravel, the turf and the sea.

Gary Hardaway, Oct 01, 2013

"spirit bottles" is such a wonderfully punny thing.

Steven J. Kolbe, Oct 01, 2013

Such concision! Your language looks exhausted it's playing so many roles at once.*

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