Poem -

Drinking Vodka

Drinking Vodka

I am dying from

Loneliness in the gutter

On the streets of Moscow 

In a pool of my sweat 

Without the sweet moments 

That I see you have as 

You walk into your luxury hotel 

Hyatt on Neglinnaya Street

Number 4; with a door and 

A restaurant I am dreaming of 

To eat inside and a room with satin sheets I cannot wish for sleep enough.... 

In the warmth of your touch 

I am crying in your reach 

To go inside with you tonight 

To go inside with your lovely beauty 

Your love; 

I am dying in the street in 

Moscow;  

In the cold, in the hunger 

In the bread and the vodka 

In these ragged grey clothes 

That are left with me 

From the charity 

You threw to me, 

I am watching you 

From the corner of my blinking eye 

Walking into your luxury hotel 

How I am dreaming 

Of walking into your room with you 

For that meal in

The restaurant and the hot bath 

And warm satin sheets in which

I am dreaming of a life with you, 

So I am dying instead 

Drinking; 

Sinking into vodka 

Outside the Moscow Hyatt

On Neglinnaya Street

Number 4; 

As you walk in 

I am left 

Left on the street 

The stone street 

The hard stone street 

Cold in the Moscow night 

Drinking Vodka

Drinking Vodka myself to sleep 

Myself to sleep

Myself to sleep 

 

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Devon La Porte

Absolutely superb Jai. I like the repetitions of mind like drunk replaying a fantasy or desire over and over in his mind. Really enjoyed the way you constructed and conveyed the drunken death wishes of a homeless man. Brilliant. Peace.

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Jai Masters

Hello Devon; I try to recreate the adverse 

circumstance albeit the actuality much 

worse and a prose is a poor cousin 

or my version feels so because truth is 

stranger than fiction; I see your response and 

take this positive feedback to mean I create 

an effect; I am sleeping on the street to experience the poverty it is winter here not 

Quite Moscow but I aim for this experience so the 

poetry is truer. No more words now. Thank

you & love from JaI :)

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Tony Taylor

Hey JAI MASTERS!! ~ this is stellar poetic prose my friend....... the vividness of the imagery floating through my consciousness as I read...... was truly....... transporting.......AMAZING write my brother poet!!.........ALL STARS....... fantastic piece!!....... your friend and admirer......T xo

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Jai Masters

It's not good to write poetry about 

poverty about misery about suffering 

I am sinning into other people's plight 

with regret, a poem is a representation 

not the truth; for that is much worse 

t h a n k

y o u 

T o ny

if you run for President I vote for you

you would be better than both other

contenders!  

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