Vintage ’69

        Vintage ’69

The best of wines is happiness.  Its gold

Is richer than a champagne tone.  Its red

Licks rich like burgundy made old

In blonde wood vats.  My happiness in bed

Continues long, like vintages that grow

More potent and more subtle in their taste.

My body has insisted that its glow

Should not diminish in its thrills or waste

Away like wine that wilts to flatness, sour

Or thin.  If bubbles start to fade, then slake

Your need with faster quenching, speed deep power

To place your drunken seed with staggering stake.

..The best of high inebriation is

….The final reeling, juddering, and jizz.