THE DRUNK

 
            OUT THE DOOR THE DRUNK STUMBLED
            TWO IN THE MORNING, WAS KICKED OUT
            THE BARTENDER HAD TAKEN HIS CAR KEYS
            HE’D PROTESTED WITH INCOHERENT SHOUTS

            NOW HE FACED A LONG WALK HOME
            PULLED HIS COAT UP AROUND HIS EARS
            STAGGERING DOWN THE SIDEWALK HE WENT
            HIS BREATH REEKING, THE ODOR OF BEER

            IN THE FOG OF HIS INEBRIATED MIND
            HE SUDDENLY THOUGHT OF A SHORTCUT
            A ROUTE HE HAD USED ONCE BEFORE
            THROUGH THE ALLEY BEHIND THE PIZZA HUT

            IN THE SHADOWS HE WENT HIS WAY
            WANTING TO AVOID THE POLICE, WAS WARY
            AHEAD HIS ROUTE WOULD TAKE HIM
            THROUGH THE DARK, FOREBODING CEMETERY

            WEAVING HIS WAY THROUGH THE STONES
            HIS DESTINATION WAS IN HIS SIGHT
            UNBEKNOWNST TO HIM WHAT WAS UP AHEAD
            WOULD SOBER HIM UP THAT DARK NIGHT

            A FRESH GRAVE HAD THAT DAY BEEN DUG
            AND INTO IT HE STUMBLED AND FELL
            SIX FEET DOWN, HE LANDED IN A HEAP
            PANICKED, JUMPED UP, BEGAN TO YELL

            THE GRAVE WAS HUGE, IT TOOK TWO PLOTS
            WAS DUG FOR A SIX HUNDRED POUND MAN
            BEING CLAUSTROPHOBIC, THE DRUNK WAS OKAY
            TRIED TO COME UP WITH AN ESCAPE PLAN

            BEING SMALL OF STATURE, HE COULDN’T GET OUT
            IN A CORNER HE DEJECTEDLY SAT DOWN
            HIS SHOUTS UNHEARD, HE FINALLY WENT TO SLEEP
            IN A CORNER ON COLD, DAMP GROUND

            SUDDENLY HE AWOKE WITH AN ABRUPT START
            SOME ONE ELSE HAD FALLEN IN WITH HIM
            SCREAMING, THEY TRIED TO CLAW THEIR WAY OUT        
            BUT COULDN’T BROACH THAT GRAVE SITE RIM

            

            STANDING UP, THE DRUNK APPROACHED THE MAN
            HAND ON HIS SHOULDER, “YOU CAN’T GET OUT!”
            WITH A SCREAM THE MAN JUMPED, WAS GONE
            HE RACED AWAY WITH UNINTELLIGIBLE SHOUTS

            THE DRUNK SHRUGGED, THEN LAY BACK DOWN
            DECIDED THAT A DIFFERENT ROUTE HE’D CHOOSE
            FROM NOW ON NO MORE CEMETERY SHORTCUTS
            AFTER DRINKING WAY TOO MUCH BOOZE!