IF ANYONE KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON EVER THEN HEY
I AM HERE IT WOULD BE NICE TO TALK SOMETIME
INFOMERCIALS HAVE STARTED AND I KIND OF WANT TO DIE
I’M PRETTY SURE THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY FOR A MORGUE
OK SO ACTUALLY IT’S FOR THE BIBLE OR SOMETHING
SO IT’S A COMMERICAL FOR TRYING TO BE HAPPY OR SOMETHING
BUT I AM NOT HAPPY TONIGHT NO I AM NOT JUST HERE
IF HAPPINESS EVER WORKED THEN HOW—I DON’T KNOW
HAPPINESS IS A LIZARD IN THE SUNLIGHT GETTING WARM
AND THEN IN THE NIGHT BENEATH A ROCK EATING FLIES
AND SWALLLOWING THE MEAT OF THE TRASH OF THE DIRT
AH, SO TONIGHT IS A LITTLE DRUNK AND OK OK OK
THAT IS GOOD SO LET ME BE—THERE IS NO LOVE TONIGHT
GOD IS LIKE BONO—SOME DICKWAD NO ONE WILL EVER MEET OR LIKE
Daniel Bailey, "Drunk Sonnet 14" from The Drunk Sonnets. Copyright © 2009 by Daniel Bailey. Reprinted by permission of Magic Helicopter Press.
Source: The Drunk Sonnets (Magic Helicopter Press, 2009)
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Poet
Daniel Bailey
b. 1984
POET’S REGION
U.S., Midwestern
Subjects
Activities,
Eating & Drinking,
Religion,
God & the Divine,
Arts & Sciences,
Humor & Satire,
Social Commentaries,
Popular Culture,
The Spiritual
Poetic Terms
Sonnet
Poet Daniel Bailey attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He started the DRUNK/Metaphysical Drinking blog with Kendra Grant Malone. A site where writers could post poems, the blog led to the publication of Bailey’s first collection of poems, The Drunk Sonnets (2009).
The Drunk Sonnets is a collection of 53 loose sonnets that toy with notions of sincerity, surrealism, and intoxication. Erin McNellis, reviewing the . . .
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SUBJECT
Activities,
Eating & Drinking,
Religion,
God & the Divine,
Arts & Sciences,
Humor & Satire,
Social Commentaries,
Popular Culture,
The Spiritual
POET’S REGION
U.S., Midwestern
Poetic Terms
Sonnet
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