' ' ' ' ' Is Good For You! Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Pint taken.

We sip
at our conversation.

Drinking in the view
caught up in the ebb & flow

of words
washed up on each other’s shore

all seaweed
& shells

the shrieking gulls of our laughter.

You now sporting
a froth moustache

chuckling as I kiss
& tickling lick it off.

Stories stretching time
beyond its limits

so that an hour
seems seven seconds.

each glass
a clock

leaving a delicate
fretwork

of latticed lace
to create ever

changing shapes
in the wash & wrack

of our drinking.

Between

each

sip

a kiss.

Drunk now
with the knowledge

Love is
good

for
you.