San Diego State University’s Independent Student Newspaper Since 1913

The Daily Aztec

San Diego State University’s Independent Student Newspaper Since 1913

The Daily Aztec




San Diego State University’s Independent Student Newspaper Since 1913

The Daily Aztec

Alcohol music rings in my ears (POEM)

I was drunk on Four Loko and ready for war.

I stole a watermelon from a barber,

I stole his widow’s soggy teeth.

I slipped inside a grocery store,

demanded the cashiers run a price-check on my name.

I pilfered twenty dollars and gestured wildly with a fish.

I stuffed my pockets full of asphalt broken off from the potholes.

I hurled my watermelon at a stoplight,

my guts at several walls.

I fell to pieces on my bed the way a watermelon falls.

My eyelids drooped down but my eyes were still open.

All around me alarm clocks started to ring.

-Jason Lester is a creative writing graduate student and a happy little cog in the MFA industrial machine. He recently began the daily weblog project Yes to Madness (yestomadness.blogspot.com), where he writes in a short poetic form he calls “madness haiku.” Invitations to take him out for drinks may be sent to jlester@rohan.sdsu.edu.

-This poem does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Daily Aztec.

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Alcohol music rings in my ears (POEM)