Uncle History loves drunks
Van Gogh sitting under a tree
With absinthe
Grant on horseback
Waving a bottle—
“Watch out Vicksburg!”
And Hemingway
Who drank so much
You could see his liver
Under his skin
Like a worm
Joe McCarthy
Hunting Communists
With Scotch…
He’s known them all:
Churchill
Kerouac
Veronica Lake
Sultan Selim II
Alcibiades
What a list!
His favorite moment:
The Greeks
After a night of drinking
Nursing their hangovers
Inside a wooden horse
Planet of the Blind 