CW: Alcoholism, substance abuse. addiction<\/p>\n
For Jack Daniels<\/b><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There was a time I would try to drink myself sober.<\/p>\n
Jack Daniels was a mistress that everyone knew I had-<\/p>\n
captivating me as soon as my tongue tasted him.<\/p>\n
A glass bottle full of magic wishes<\/p>\n
charming me into spending $38 on a shot in Stockholm<\/p>\n
while too drunk to remember he had to cross the ocean to be with me.<\/p>\n
Daring me to call an ex while daring him to do the same.<\/p>\n
Encouraging us to cry to each other about our break up and my phone in a snowbank.<\/p>\n
Sinatra Select Blend showed me the smoothest jack I had ever known.<\/p>\n
Hearing him call out for me while my ex-husband<\/p>\n
poured what was left of him down the drain to spite me.
\nJack could keep me enthralled any night of the week.<\/p>\n
Being given \u20ac3 on a shot of his sweet honey from<\/p>\n
the English National Soccer team in a basement bar in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n
A handle of Jack attached to my hip<\/p>\n
for every house party I attended in college.<\/p>\n
Jack will forever be the straightest relationship I have ever had.<\/p>\n
He even followed me on my honeymoon in Mexico<\/p>\n
not able to be without my mistress for any length of time.<\/p>\n
Now I drink myself sober with Gatorade;<\/p>\n
No longer seeing Jack Daniels.<\/p>\n
He keeps tempting me to come back with his sirens song.<\/p>\n
Trying to remind me of the good times we shared that were never good for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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