Thursday, July 18, 2019

A Quart a Day by Hugh Blanton

The feature article said that Lemmy drank
a quart of Jack Daniels a day.
I just assumed a quart was a lot without
even trying to think about how much
a quart really was.

Then the 1.75 liter bottle of whiskey
I bought two days ago is already gone.

Check the metric conversions
on the inside cover of your
Tops composition book.

I'm almost up to Lemmy's level.




About Hugh Blanton:

Hugh Blanton lives in San Diego, California and combs poems out of his hair during those moments he can steal away from his employer's loading dock. He has appeared in Bottom Shelf Whiskey.

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