Jose, Jack & Johnny

A love/hate relationship

no one compares to you

look for your charm everywhere 

i imagine dipping in your heat

sipping your nectar, i am insatiable 

you spy me through crystal eyes

hauntingly coaxing me

your elixir is irresistible

you go down so sinfully good

making me feel comfortably numb

can't get enough of your sweet tonic

you're like a truth serum in my head

nights are dark,  days process slowly

at the dawn you pound in my head

i try to avoid you, ignore you

hoping against hope you'll stay away

i'm drawn to you again & again

you sway me like a w***e on crack

i inhale the trouble in my mind

exhale the easiness of blurred time

your cheap essence easier to comprehend

there are moments I can resist you,

the next i want to swim in your endless seas

sweep me away and make it for eternity

where addictions cease to be 

           the only compelling conviction

Author's Note

Reviews

[quinfinn]

Cuervo, Daniels and Walker would have sounded like some cockamamie law firm, so you did well to personalize the names. i have always had a love/hate relationship with all of them. sure, i love em while i'm partying and feeling good, but later, when all the hoopla has died down and it's time to pray to the porcelain god, calling "ralph, isaac and huey" then all the love goes away. love the way you handled this information and made me laugh and wince at the same time...great write, posy!

[Frieda P]

Ha quin, only you could have thought of that one! Thanks hun x

[quinfinn]

anytime.....

[KAOlmsted]

I've never been too fond of Jose and Jack and I haven't spoken since I was 16 years old, but Johnny...oh Johnny...come to mama ;-)

I absolutely love the description, a love/hate relationship, because that is it exactly. Spot on, and amazing imagery.

[Frieda P]

Ha I should have know, that stuff makes you bobinz, black or red? ;-)

[KAOlmsted]

Blue, baby ;-)

[Frieda P]

O.O ooolala!

[KAOlmsted]

A rare treat...usually it's box o' wine or peebers xD

[Frieda P]

Ha with Pringles ;-)

[KAOlmsted]

You know me so well xD

[eglantine]

Separately they are each enjoyable, but altogether, a three horseman (have you ever had the misfortune to have it?) bleck!!! I've always favored Jose though.

[Frieda P]

Ha no, I'm crazy, not insane! I actually mostly drink vodka, but there's no familiar brand name that fit....I've had my fling with Jose though, that's definitely a love/hate relationship. Thanks eglantine.

[gabrielle]

Frieda, this piece is deliriously intoxicating. Poor Jose, i abandoned him years ago. This might be a good time to rekindle our affair. :)

[Frieda P]

Your review is deliriously delicious. :-) I have a few friends that did that too, they all rekindled their friendship lol

[redflutterby]

Bad boys with a well earned reputation...Jack and I have danced many times. Ahhh.... how wickedly warm he is. *sigh*

[Frieda P]

Ha and I thought Johnny Walker 'Red' would be more your type! ;-P

[redflutterby]

Ha... my heart belongs to jack.... I cheated with johnny once. Jack was so mad!! Lol...

[Frieda P]

How odd, I cheated on Johnny with Jose, he can really get under your skin, what a convoluted mess! lol

[Jack...]

Reminds me of George Thoroughgood's. I drink alone. I almost read this last night when I was searching. The cravings, the want and the desire for that taste, just once more, hit me one more time, it goes down so smooth and reminds us why we are friends...most of the time. Very cool Frieda.

[Frieda P]

That's too cool that you thought of that Jack...'I prefer to be by myself', yes indeed...thanks so much!

[Rita L. Sev]

Trying to avoid, to ignore... Never quite works, does it? A familiar quandary, poetically expressed. Great stuff here, Frieda!

[Frieda P]

Hardly never Rita, thanks, much appreciated!

[icelandicblue]

We wax and wane for what we crave, it is the way of such things. We ride these tides keeping our heads above water because on some level we are always aware that we might drown. I enjoyed the juxtaposition of the sentiments and of your words.

[Frieda P]

Thanks so much for your lovely review blue.

[Leslie Philibert]

a good review from simplemind of a good poem. I have the feeling too you are ambivalent, but this is a classicial poetic dilema that you get exactly right here..

[Frieda P]

Very, so glad that came through, much appreciate your visit Leslie, thanks.

[SimpleMind]

JJJ

--sounds like a heart having second thoughts...! Yet, giving in at the end. Clearly written.. so great Frie! I know few of us feel like this sometimes. And you perfectly described them in your words!

[Frieda P]

Much appreciate your insightful review and thoughts here SM, thanks so much!