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I Can't Get Drunk

I Can't Get Drunk

(This fictional poem takes place in the year 1984.)

I can't believe what the USA Government has done.
They've raised the drinking age up to twenty-one.
I just turned eighteen last week.
Now I can't get drunk and it's bleak.

Before I can buy any booze, I'll have to wait three years.
I really want some vodka, Jack Daniels and a keg of beer.
Why did the government have to do what they did?
It's been my dream to be the town drunk since I was a kid.

I bought a fake ID but the liquor store owner knows it's phony.
I told him that it's genuine but he says that's a lot of baloney.
He just grabbed me and threw me out the door.
It looks like I won't get any booze at his store.

I asked my uncle to buy me some beer.
He got so angry that he boxed my ears.
Now I can't get plastered and that isn't fun.
I can't get any booze until I turn twenty-one.Β 

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sparrowsong

Hello Randy...

Isn't it a riot?

​​​​​​They must have seen us coming!

?????

​​​​​They did the same thing to me...

You can have a driver's license, you can buy a home, you can buy a car, you can buy cigarettes, you can have a baby, you can get married, and you can vote, but, you have to wait three years to buy a beer, but you can have prescription medications...

But, one your 21st birthday you buy a gun and get drunk...

Brilliant or what?

Great fun write!

Thank you for sharing...

Hugs...

sparrowsong

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