Aw honey
I said
Why don’t you take a break from the bottle
Let your head fill back up with water
Instead of
top shelf percentages
why don’t you go back
to running around shirtless
rousing up a gang of thinkers
for one more night around the table

when
what happened
starts to change
the way you say
hello

when
a thumb happens to trip
over the rounded corner of a shoulder
come back
to find a little strength
sleeping in your bed
oh to lay down
still but
let the feet kick–