Inspiration Through Inebriation

Some of literature's most famous authors have been known to habitually over-consume, producing beautiful, enlightened or dark and melancholic works. DP serves as a repository, a community and a forum for the expression of lubricated creativity. You certainly do not need to be intoxicated to be welcome here. This is not a drunk-fest or college humor site, but drunks and college humorists are welcome. As is anyone else who wants to read some inspired words or contribute their own.

Please try to operate here with an honest, creative intent. Consider Drunken Poetry as a genre or style -- like Drunken Monkey is to Kung Fu. Words are powerful tools. Lets see what we can do with them.

Poem of the Moment Meager King Climbing onto rayon, tiredly, The headstone to a long day's travel in North America, I sprawl carelessly, dirty king in a dirty room. The shade on the lamp is gone, Perhaps in search of a better home, Perhaps in a dumpster, a victim of decapitation. Its light stares brightly at me, Waiting to judge me for leaving towels and bedclothes on the floor For my rented servants to collect. Cigarette burns mark the table by the bed, Fossils of kings past. During my reign I will shower hot and lingering, Walk nakedly, smoke endlessly And mark my sovereignty with empty bottles. I am disposed to a brief nobility, not by blood, right, ego or disdain, but a momentary, hired stake of claim. Author's notes and comments ForgottenLanguage

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