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Let Me Practice Walking First

Dukes of Habit

Pool Boys

A Walk to Bartender

One of the Best Chapters Bar None

Melancholic

Dionysus Drunk

Dregs

Spin and Fall

Hour

Plague Poem for Day Eight Hundred and Sixty-Five, Empty

Plague Poem for Day Eight Hundred and Fifty-Four, Time Enough

Plague Poem for Day Eight Hundred and Twenty-Seven

One for Me and One for Reynard

Sweet Wine Kisses

Sonnettic Wine

Chateau L

Vintage

Bourbon-Soaked Poem

Whiskey Priest

Life as a Tom Waits Song

The Challenge

Talking to Walls

Jack-in-the-Bar (After the Audition)

The Winebibber’s Prayer

Burns Night

You Gotta Know When to Hold ‘Em

Good Time Girl

Sitting with the Broken Glass

Strawberry Daiquiri

Seduction: Mae West Style

Civility

Bar/tending to My Own Business

Damiana Mama

Pub Epic

Dandelion Wine

At the Bar Where the Dead Still Order

To the Other Sarah with an “h” on a First Date

Crashing a Halloween Speakeasy in Kingsport, Tennessee

Who Wants It?

Gin Martini

The Bars on the Vineyard

The Noisy Corner of the Bar

Religious Experience at Joe's

Hangover Man

In the End, It's Just Me 

Whiskey Bar Remodeled

The Longest Night

Just for Tonight

Faux Pas

Just Give Me A Minute

Gout Attack

No One Came to My Intervention

Karaoke

Harvest Day

Just a Bar

Merganser

Vintage

The Whale Has Been Drinking

Despair

V8 Ford Young Drinker

Buying Liquor on a Bible Belt Tuesday

The Daisy Gambit

Dewar’s and Water

Beer Cheer

Studying for the Bar

Cocktail Party

Doldrums

Drunken Pioneer

Last Cocktail Before Lockdown

Plexiglas

Another Practical Degree

Strange Tequila

The Proposition

It Started So Well

Tata’s Santa

Barstool Cowgirl

Plumped Into the Reeking Chest

My Night

JP’s Ultimate Guide to Drinking

Breeders

Surquedry

Fucked Up

They Tossed Me Out Of A Dungeon Bar

The Hotsy Totsy

Wine and Salsa (not that kind of salsa)

Gamblers Hands

Retired

Belated

Blind Trust

The Majestic

Rat Tale

Poached Egg

second hand smoke

reunion photographer

Conserve Gas – Ride the Bus

Yard Darts

Hayden Carruth Has Had Enough

A Farewell Toast to Mojo Nixon

Six Beers and a Dog

The Local

Early Morning Fix

Every 3rd Thursday

One Man’s Happy Hour

Hosed

The Imp

Awash With Words

Medicinal Purposes

Drink

Sir, I’m So Sorry

Being Merely Who I Am

A Protean Story: Highway 101, circa 1973

Your Royal Hiccup

Respected Bottle

Good Fellows

Editing Charles (A Monodrama)

Counting Days

In the Dying Embers

The Painful Sunrise

Le Mari Était en Noir

Zero Tolerance

Divided

Drunken Summer Swelter

Motel Sunset

Here on Angel Street

White Russians

Introduction to Drinking

Wingman

I Start at Three Each Day

Dumas, pere

it was that kind of night

Steps

Cocktail King

Orbits

Nightlife

Half-Girl

Anniversary Sake

The Barroom Philosopher

The Bottom of the Glass

Ode to Alcohol

Philip Marlowe Heads for a Pint at a Local Craft Brewery

Eggnog and Rumballs

Zulu

I Pour a Shot of Whiskey

Transmigrant

West Village Bluz

White Horse Tavern

The A.M. Bartender

The Angel’s Share

A Lonely, Solitary Independence Day

Love Is So Cliché

A Drink Called Paradise

Low End Chardonnay

Tequila

Tomorrow Never Knows

No Good Service Goes Unignored: Elegy for a Dive

Real Chemistry

And All Our Yesterdays Have Lighted Fools

Whiskey Mystics and Men

Fred Friction: Patron Saint of Saint Louis Dive Bars

Sapporo

Nightclubbing

Happy Rum

The Red Shot

Hunt for the Empties

What Are the Chances

Santa’s Liquid Lunch

Glühwein

METAXA

Wormwood

The Game of Golf

Global (in 7 Steps)

Make Me a Drink

Dive Bar

The Back of the Drawer

Seventeen Miles to Mannington

My Ass Just left the Bar

One More Beer for Suzi

Two for Two

Old Before His Time

Perpetuating

Iceberg

Malting

Indulgence

Bar City Blues

Pressure

Injecting Interludes

Satori

Brown Jacket

The Wail of the Loon

Remembering the Pub Life

Sundown

Bar Tales

In Your Place

Blending

In Confidence

Bonds

In Companionship of Loneliness

Nighthawks

In Solitude of Strangers

Drunk and Faraway

Screw Top Whiskey and Decanters

Cocktail Hour

Lines on the Lip of a Skull Cup

Mercy

Broken Bottle

Bring More Wine! (Conachlonn)

The First and Last Drink of Ilona Odd

How do You Make a Sour Drink Creamy?

Haikubes

Chorus of Elixirs

I’ll Be Damned

Let Go

Enough Said

Black Daphne

Inspiration Gone

The Game of Dating