Beer Bier By Terrence Sykes

back in the day

in my hometown

you could buy beer

with your food stamps

drink your meal

sounds absurd but

a cool one’s got to be

more healthy

than some alternatives

say...Kraft cheese slices

Cheetos cheese puffs

or a chunk of plastic

Velveeta

of course you could

only buy 3.2 percent

suppose the uptight

self righteous ones

impeded the poor souls

from proper nutrition

by blocking 6.0 ale

in the name of religion

so I could never enjoy

one of those foreign brews

left dreaming of a chicken

wing & a prayer

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.