yes isn’t always the answer

 

you figure things out the hard way…

 

‘yes isn’t always the answer’

 

yes isn’t always the answer

i couldn’t figure out

what he meant

but it became clearer

after several shots of irish whiskey

 

look, sometimes you have to grow balls

and stick up for yourself

be a man and not some compliant pussy

that rolls over to your woman.

 

he suddenly got a text from his wife

and hurried home.

 

i poured whiskey down my throat

stumbled in at 4am

walked into walls

pissed in the sink

and caught holy hell.

 

listen to this poem

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