Drinks, for Mike Doughty and Sappho

And then there's
the possibility
a man can be
the drinks I keep
drinking
and fall down
stumbling.
All the time
I've forgotten,
a place we meet
and fall in
together.
The disease,
the cure,
the same
drink. The man,
the woman,
falling asleep,
both passed
out into
each other.