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The Man Who Loved Beer

from The Man Who Loved Beer by Kevin P. Gilday

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Some of you may be aware
Perhaps some of you here
That I'm Kevin P. Gilday
And I'm the man who loves beer
I'm an ale house resident
A can carrying man
An amber elixir imbiber
A Pint swallowing bam
An alcoholic interloper
Forever available for a drink
With an etch-a-sketch diary
There's no plan I won't sink -

For a night out
For a quick one
For a lunchtime beverage
For a night in
For a nightcap
For early morning leverage

For a swift one
For a curer
For a Sunday session
For the hair of the dog
For a few tins
For a late night lesson -

In how to drink with the best of them
Induce vomit ridden stupor
And get right back on it without complaint
You can't say I'm not a trouper
Dedicated to the cause
Field marshall general of the drink
With strategic intelligence of my targets
Instinctively aware of the nearest clink
Of glasses shared between lovers,
Acquaintances and friends
Stories regaled of stupendous feats
Bridges burned and made amends

The booze seeps into my blood
Just a trickle and then a flood
It coils around my brain
A calmness spreads across my chest
My anxiety it soon arrests
Replaced instead with a yearning for chow mein

You might let me fuck you now
After I charm, and wear, and beg
But will you still love me tomorrow
When I have shit running down my leg
When the poison does its bidding
Capillaries swell and explode
As bile is ejected
And stomach lining erodes
I pray for some God to take me
To heaven, Valhalla or the pub
Where the antidote awaits me
And therein lies the rub...

The comfort
The hunger
The thirst
The craving
The longing
The lust
The demand
The desire
To feed
The urge
The want
The need

For an artificial aid
A social vibrator
Personality lubrication
Conversation stimulator
And maybe one day it will kill me
And no flags will fly half mast
But friends and lovers will tell stories,
Share a joke and raise a glass
Chisel it on my gravestone
The man who rests here:
Is Kevin P. Gilday
The man who loved beer

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

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Kevin P. Gilday Glasgow, UK

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

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