LIQUOR THRIFT STORE. By Terrence Sykes

why can’t you buy liquor
in a thrift store
those slightly used bottles

that opened bottle of champagne
popped to ask the question
but he said no

perhaps that chocolate wine
given as a dinner party gift
unsure who gave it so you can’t regift

that bottle of old red wine
a touch of cork taint to the wine snob
but most would sip it unnoticed

perhaps that bottle of scotch
too peaty for your unsophisticated tastebuds
stored in the back of the booze cabinet for years

upscale resale & upcycle recycle
yes indeed there should really be
a liquor thrift store

Terrence Sykes is a GASP Gay Alcoholic Southern Poet & was born and raised in the rural coal mining area of Virginia. Although he is a far better cook &  gardener – his  poetry - photography - flash fiction has been published in India, Mauritius,Scotland, Spain and the USA. ..Other interests include heirloom vegetable research & foraging wild edibles .