It was small news
Under reported
The EU will no longer require absinthe to contain wormwood
So fans of Rimbaud and Toulouse-Lautrec
You need to come forward and protest
Or at least buy up stockpiles of the real stuff
Like I’ll do
In case I feel a fin de siècle mood coming on
Because if I need a zinc topped table to lean on
As the night travels into timeless
I’ll want the original
Old school cool shit
The ritual
I want the faint echo of the psychedelic that those old poems promise
I don’t want extra ethyl
I want dreams
I want the curls of worms
I want to see the dance of the green fairy
The green fairy naked
I want to write skewed poetry
Illuminate the edge of the crack that splits the glass
Open
I want the mirrorshard of memory
Tinged with the green fuzz of decay
To taste of absinthe
That takes me away
David Trudel © 2013
A sad day indeed…
Cheers!