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Dear Alcohol

from Goodbye Stranger by Alanna Boudreau

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Dear alcohol, you’ve turned my soul a shade of gray
In confession father gently says
I should write a letter to what makes me angry.

So dear alcohol, here’s my penance in epistle form.
Here’s my prayer departing from the norm.
You can go to hell: I guess I’m getting somewhere.

Dear alcohol, you taught me how to camouflage.
How to turn my eyes and how to dodge
How to make believe things never even happened

Dear alcohol, you made yourself a nightly guest
Poisoned countless words with scorn unchecked
Words you can’t recall, words I can’t rinse off of me.

Dear alcohol, you thrive on wounded mem’ries old.
Teach a child conflict means control.
Plant a seed of fear and water it with anger.

Dear alcohol, you thought you had me in your arms.
thought you’d wooed me with resentment’s charms.
But I know you’re only as strong as I make you.

Dear alcohol, you’ll never know a mother’s heart.
Never change a father’s chosen part.
You’ll never know a brother, sister, lover.

And I pity you. I pity you, you bastard leech.
I pity you. Dear alcohol, I pity you.

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from Goodbye Stranger, released May 12, 2018

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