BEASTLY TALES - THE TEETOTALLER
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Richard Hersel
BEASTLY TALES
THE TEETOTALLER
Advocating total abstinence from intoxicants,
Publicly doing so with long pithy rants.
“Lips that touch Liquor will never touch mine.”
“And looking at you, that’s just fine!”
This was a concern for the suffragettes,
Looking at them, you’d remove all bets.
And let us not forget prohibition,
Written into law by a dumb politician.
Now abstinence should be a personal matter,
Compulsory for those who do excessively chatter,
A drink or two can make the heart rejoice,
So long as they don’t do so with a loud voice.
One can take a little wine for one’s stomach's sake,
Accent on the “little” not to act as a flake.
If or when, invited to dine,
It’s perfectly acceptable to take a bottle of wine.
Hopefully, the invitor will also have a bottle,
If not it may be acceptable, him, to throttle.
Some Irish like Guinness with a whiskey chaser,
“They go so well together,”
“In this kind of weather,”
“It seems a pity to keep them apart,”
“So it does,” said an Irish drinker ready to start.
Now, if you are ready to be athletic,
It sometimes helps to have an anaesthetic,
So if you were to get sore legs and feet,
Your pain receptors may be replete.
“I’ll just have one for my health,”
So said old Dan, often drinking by stealth.
“I don’t mind at all being a teetotaller,”
“Just so long as I’m not too far from a bottler!”
great Richard!
We have a little vice that is that of good wine ... sometimes it's a perfect panacea! The only way to stop a habit is to start another one.
Yes good wine good music and good food can be enjoyable.
Wonderful, i like your page @beastlybanter
Really refreshing post...
Full of inspirations & insights...
Thanks for sharing & Have a lovely day, dear @beastlybanter...😀☕❤
Very funny! Then there's the time where you're invited to dinner, and you take a bottle of wine, the host takes it and you never see it again, and you're only offered soft drink or water. I never accept another invitation from people like that again.😁
Thank you good comment as always.
Another good poem. Entertaining and real. And the subject, just today...Funny, we seem to keep running the same tracks, you and I ;)
Nice! :)
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