Alcoholic

[rowens]

When I drink wine
some

times
I ofte
n cr

y

The tears cut out of my eyes
like an orgasm.


That similar sublime pinch

[Valerie Please]

It’s too bad that you can’t make eyes more phallic somehow. I think that’s just what this poem needs, a blatantly phallic symbol.Maybe he could be crying into a nice long bottle, so he’s returning his salt to the father ship…and then maybe make a stab at connecting it all to toxic masculinity?

[rowens]

Male toxins and female toxins are the ingredients of humanity.
Aggression and jealousy and envy lead to more babies being born than bombs being MANufactured.

In fact, language is synonymous with MANipulation.


And eyes aren't phallic, they're testicular. And in Hebrew, Yods are sperm cells, Ayins are eyes. Yod corresponds to the Hermit and Ayin the Devil, both phallic figures.

The Phallic Gaze

[Bunx]

Coming from a sober dude
When I was drinking during the pandemic
I swore off wine...way too sweet.
Saké is a decent compromise.
Loved the open poem on alcoholism and depression.

Woman drink just as hard and abuse toxically hard too
As well as cry... Trans men exist and so do masc females.
A women might have written this it's not about
Naddy Daddy's or Coors Light it's about wine.
I would not put a gender to alcohol, or a dick... That's just me.

Rowen's I'd suggest to the narrator saké

[rowens]

Sake is what Trungpa drank/drunk? 24 hours a day to his death.

The poem didn't have anything to do with gender, necessarily. My response was simply satisfying Shem's girlfriend's comment.

[Bunx]

Eh no idea! I just it didn't give me a stomach sche

[rowens]

I guess it's about how much your drink.

If I were to drink one bottle of wine or whiskey, as soon as the last few sips were evident, I'd immediately start to come down. So I always get several bottles at a time.

Getting drunk is like a little suicide. You get tired of everything, even the good things, so you get a break for a few hours by turning it off. Same thing with sex. Dying a thousand deaths.