Poems on alcohol addiction and deliverance. In Good-bye, Joan Larkin writes: "You are saying good-bye to your last / drink. There is no lover / like her: bourbon, big gem / in your palm and steep /fiery blade in your throat, / deadeye down. None like her / but her sister, first / gin..."
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