Upturned bottles once lined with military order
on dusty, termite-rotten shelves. Fingerprints,
clear spaces of use, caught by the shafts of daylight
through pin-holes where nails have been.
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Response: No - I am not and never have been troubled with alcohol. In fact, I can't drink because it poisons me... but I can imagine.
Lined up? This seems like a beginning. Too many local knots of dark matter for the ropes to swing. Perhaps you could keep going with it.