Quentin Huff
All Right

          swig after swig
the fluid scorches my lips,
grabs my worries,
tosses them across the street
where kids watch me stagger
cuz...

sick, illogical babble
interrupts my thoughts---

staring at this fluid
swishing from

side
                to                side

cccccccccccrashing against glass walls

the feeling
of being trapped inside a bottle
when i insist
i feel all right

(c) 1997 QBHuff