Are you tired of “high-browed” “literary” poetry? Do you long for odes to Martinis, whiskey sours, and white wine? Then get Mug & Mali’s latest classic, “Twisted Cocktail Poetry & Recipes.” You’ll find over 200 new classic cockeyed cocktail poems, limericks, and Mother Booze rhymes; 325 undrinkable original cocktail recipes; and more!
Here are just a few of these timeless works:
Shall I compare thee to a Happy Hour?
Though art more lively and more sublime:
Slow hands do stir the muddled whiskey sour,
And Happy Hour seems all too short a time.
- William Snakespit
Because I could not stop for Rum
It kindly stopped for me;
The barmaid held out both her hands
With three strong daiquiris.
- Emily Drinkenson
The rum is lovely, dark, and deep,
And I have Happy Hour to keep,
And much to drink before I sleep,
And much to drink before I sleep.
- Robert Frostbite
They drank in gin, and cocktails of rum,
Which they gulped from their runcible glasses;
And near and far, at the side of the bar,
Got drunk ‘til they fell on their asses.
- Edward Beer
Do not go thirsty into that good night,
Dry throat should warm and wet at close of day;
Drink, drink before the closing of the bar.
- Drinkin Thomas
For all sad words of tongue and ink,
The saddest are these, “I spilled my drink.”
- John Greenleaf Whittless
Mary had a little beer,
Its foam was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went,
She had another beer.
My beer came back to me
When I went out to pee
Behind the parking lot.
It stank with such an awful scent,
That when at last I zipped and went,
I missed it not.
- Francis Cornmeal
This old dog, he drank one;
He drank corn jack mixed with rum.
With a knick-knack, paddy whack,
Give a mutt a shot,
This old hound was quite a sot.
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