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Dead or Alive

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Submitted by perspiciens on July 20, 2008 - 10:52.
Podcast: 

BrewFest drunkies
Smell drunk
Sound drunk
Look drunk

The first drunk group
I've ever been around
Ever will be around

A half-sober one
Stumbles up the stairs
To where we're
Doing homework

Calls us down
To where we set up
My PS2 for ROCKBAND

"Teach us"
She gurgles
Picking up the guitar

"Oh my God
You guys are so drunk"
AS we step over
One passed out

"Dead or Alive!"
They cry
The designated driver
Murmers the phrase
Over and over
In cacophonous chorus

We try to show them
"Pedal, pedal, pedal"
One chants in rhythm
To my BFF drumming
She twacks him
Creating welts
Apparently, one child's enough

I decide I'll never drink
So much to make me drunk
Therefore
I'll never be caught drunk
Dead or alive

For now
I'll keep my PS2
And tunes
Away for BF drunkies

A lesson for yous:
Drunk people are freaks
And they can't sing
Or play music

Bring earplugs to a bar
Trust me
You'll need them

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