Diverse* Coterie
Drunk elephants, well-oiled non-human apes,
Intoxicated pen-tailed tree-shrews, moose
Vamoosing tipsily, and rats who traipse
Erratically on alcoholic juice
Reveal it's nature's nature to abhor
Sobriety. This diverse coterie
Evolved a drinking habit long before
Commercial vineyards: drinking had to be
Of some survival benefit ... In flies,
The jilted male can drink his sorrows, and
Eggs females lay when drunk stint fewer guys ...
Research concludes it's time to understand,
Inebriation's not a human trait
Exclusively—all beasts self-medicate!
*Pronounced with stress on first syllable
(First published in Light
on 4th November, 2024
as one of the Poems
of the Week. Story here) |
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