POETRY SPOT

Some short words, add your own meaning and any inspiration . . . 

The folk song “Rye Whiskey” from the early 1900s had the following verse:

If the ocean was whiskey and I was a duck

I’d dive to the bottom and never come up.

In 2003, a hundred years later, a second verse was added by a user on a newsgroup:

If the ocean were whisky

And I was a duck

I’d swim to the bottom

And drink my way up.

But the ocean’s not whisky

And I’m not a duck

So pass me the bottle

And shut the fuck up.