{"id":2668,"date":"2017-05-16T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2017-05-16T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:00:13","slug":"the-futility-of-the-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=2668","title":{"rendered":"The Futility Of The Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Futility Of The Bottle<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Life ain\u2019t much, but it\u2019s all there is.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It will probably go out with a fizz.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Closing down the bars at 0200 every night.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Doing my best not to get in a fight.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Having nightly drunkalogs with the boys.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

All through an alcoholic haze. What joy.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

No one pays attention to us.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Just as long as we don\u2019t disrupt.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

We try to get out on the floor.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

On weekends, music brings them in the door.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

A few females will dance a little.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Most don\u2019t like to be sprayed with spittle.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

They come in with a date.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want an alcoholic mate.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same old thing every night.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Always trying to score. It\u2019s such a fright.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The next day is always hell at work.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You feel like hell, but still you smirk.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI had a super time last night.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

One of these days I\u2019ll get it right.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

In the meantime, here\u2019s to you.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I raise my glass of liquid brew.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

—————————-R.W. Johnson—–(2017)<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Futility Of The Bottle Life ain\u2019t much, but it\u2019s all there is. It will probably go out with a fizz. Closing down the bars at 0200 every night. Doing my best not to get in a fight. Having nightly drunkalogs with the boys. All through an alcoholic haze. What joy. No one pays … Continue reading The Futility Of The Bottle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16,29,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factual","category-free-bird-poetry","category-life-lessons","category-recovery","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}