Tried this for the first and last time last night.
Made from a different type of wormwood.
Legal after 90 years,
of killing people, driving them insane.
If you can even stomach the stuff.
We dared each other to take a shot.
Hit us both hard.
Tasted like licorice-flavored
cough syrup.
The sugar cube dissolved
into nothingness.
No sweetness to be found.
September 5, 2009
© Anne Westlund
Poetry by Anne Westlund
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Written on 2009-09-06 at 07:15
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Absinthe
Made from a different type of wormwood.
Legal after 90 years,
of killing people, driving them insane.
If you can even stomach the stuff.
We dared each other to take a shot.
Hit us both hard.
Tasted like licorice-flavored
cough syrup.
The sugar cube dissolved
into nothingness.
No sweetness to be found.
September 5, 2009
© Anne Westlund
Poetry by Anne Westlund
Read 585 times
Written on 2009-09-06 at 07:15
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