Drunken Sailor                                                                                                                                                                                            Abbie Mazour

 

You have stranded

my hope on

the sinking edges

of Jack Sparrow’s

imaginary life raft

 

too many glasses deep

in your raging

sea of inebriation

 

where each shark

that circles

is less deadly

than your words

I promise

it won’t happen again.