('in the drink)

Oh, I came too quickly, laughed too loudly,

*cut too-short,
*over-estimated,
*under-dressed.

No x-cusses,

‘didn’t take much ‘put me back, where I belong…(‘in the drink)
But, was With, Who, Where, and How…

I was out…(‘in the drink)

Half empty, a fools-fullI’d stood bar-stool high,

glass upturned, head hung low

Awaiting my magic, blood-coursing moment

The tingle tangle warmth through my veins,

to fill’ her up….finally.(‘In the drink)

Oh, But I was so unlike the likes of you. all.

Or so it seemed, that is, until I put me back…(‘in the drink)

But, every time/town/Tom/Dick or Harry

how many bottoms was I willing to drop?

I’d sink a little deepergoing, going, gone (‘in the drink)

Left with only pieces of a wholly, holy mess

To this, that and anyone,

just to have one

to "cheer"...
(’in the drink)

-Shelby (April ‘04)