Doug Draime

           19 Straight Whiskeys


            If I would have been

            there at the Chelsea Hotel,

            drinking

            with Dylan Thomas

            the night

            they drove him away

            in an ambulance.

            I would have told him all

            the fame and booze

            was mutilating

            his soul.

            The hangers on, writers, editors,

            other drunks, leeches, and the women

            spreading their

            nylon legs.

            All of them killing him,

            or watching him die

            and doing nothing to stop it.

            They say he said on that night

            "I've had 18 straight whiskeys. I think

            thatıs the record."

            I would have told him all that shit was killing him.

            I would have cut him off at 9 whiskeys.

            But then again, maybe I mightıve

            kept my nose out

            of his business, and matched him

            drink for drink.

            Going on and beating his record

            with 19, and

            leaving with one of the

            women before

            the ambulance arrived.





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