Violins and Vodka
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Violins and Vodka[from Intrinsica]
By Eddy Ricci Jr.
Dizzy with misery and heated with sweat
lays a man on his home sofa, a faith ended vet.
From the day he retired his fatigues from his locker,
he drowned his liver with whisky and vodka.
He defined a new love with the girl he always knew,
and his 'Nam absorbed brain poisoned his views.
Flashbacks of dying friends hurt worst than his purple heart's sting
and with his forever love he produced one offspring.
Blessed for keeping his own, his son's life was a prevalence
but the boy's grown instincts were not the same as his father's sense.
Mentally undeveloped he lacked a chromosome, in some ways was slow
and the gene pool cursed him with a tick of homo row.
His abnormalities ran his father away, he couldn't understand,
his son's lack of love for girls, sports and favorite rock bands.
The boy lived a life of cries as he feared his old man folk,
but was assuaged in the delight of notes in soft violin strokes.
His only God-sent gift was found when played for comfort
and in denial was his father as he felt the melody have the same feeling of some sort.
The father looks above asking why he received the cards he was dealt,
his seed not wanted, his mind plays games and his soul was starting to melt.
He renounced his son but felt at ease with the violin's every note,
he hated that his coldness was solved with his son's musical coat.
That day the tune was so perfect, relaxing and right
he took three last swigs from his bottle and in tranquility called it a night.
Posted by eddyricci
at 6:03 PM EST
Updated: Friday, 16 December 2005 1:28 AM EST