proof

looking at a bottle of some
daunting
bacardi 151.

i can just imagine
how it's going to
burn
going
down.

(and how my
liver
is going to hate me.)

i've always wondered why
proofs
of alcohol are double the percentage.

maybe it's a measure
of their worth?

what would that make
me?

at least 200, i hope.

and i wonder too

how someone looks
and thinks

"i can just imagine
how he's going to
burn
going
down."