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Vile
Vile, disgusting, putrid, rank, horrid, rotten, horrible
I've just had my first taste of beer
Age 5
Becks swigged direct from my father's bottle
With his blessing
Sharing his illicit hobby with his son
For his own amusement more than anything
To watch me screw up my face and wonder
Why anyone would voluntarily drink this
Gaseous and living
Bitter and unforgiving
An elaborate joke
Sharp and harsh
Discourteous and brash
Giving me the boak

Devoid
Devoid, burning, reeling, cutting, clawing, consuming
Vodka, introduced to my life
Age 15
Procured with great care
And no little ingenuity
With surgical precision
Shots are decanted into the cap
Colourless but with a potent odour
Of the kind more associated with treacherous DIY
Than exotic alcohol
Poisonous and clear
With bite and sear
Overloading my senses
silent and looming
Bitter and subsuming
My palette wrenches

Steaming
Steaming, fucked, wrecked, jaked, wasted, pished, drunk
On cheap lager
Age 17
Released from the shackles of domesticity
I stumble bleary-eyed towards independence
Cramped university dorm littered with cans
My aluminium army awaiting my command
A novice's tolerance is supplemented
By a miraculous regeneration
A superpower now lost to time
Unruly and rowdy
Then bleary and cloudy
A constant haze
Moulding and warming
Character forming
Halcyon days

Sick
Sick, ill, ailing, delicate, feeble, weak, afflicted
By Whisky, an evil spirit
Age 23
Mixed with a cocktail of macho bravado and self hatred
That rots my insides like rust
Drinking to numb myself to the latest romantic betrayal
In the ongoing drama that is my life
The script is cliché ridden and punctuated by inconsistencies
Framed through the woozy soft focus of a drunken director
As I lay lifeless, contemplating
Soulless and crushing
Less than nothing
Hopelessly detached
Lay my fears bare
With consideration and care
The surface barely scratched

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from The Man Who Loved Beer, released June 21, 2015

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Kevin P. Gilday is an award-winning writer and spoken word artist from Glasgow, Scotland.

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