The Alchol Problem Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

The alcohol problem

They say the scientist, alcohol shrinks your brain
and is a cause for violence.
I'm not so sure, in Muslim countries, they are quick
to murder people, and good humour appears
to be lost in oil-wells and sand.
In Pakistan, alcohol is forbidden and what a mess
the country makes drowning in hatred against reason.
Banning alcoholic drinks is to stop people
seeing the truth, and using religion as a weapon
What shrinks in the brain is the banal, the trite
what is left is sanity pure as vodka on the rocks
and cold morning beer.