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# Hot Turkey
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/hot-turkey/
- Published: 2021-07-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: To cigarettes I’ve left unsmoken To women I have failed to bed To gluttony I gladly shed To ugly truths I’ve left unspoken
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

To cigarettes I’ve left unsmoken  
To women I have failed to bed  
To gluttony I gladly shed  
To ugly truths I’ve left unspoken

To mediocre jobs I’ve done  
To roads I could but had not taken  
To drinks, however stirred, not shaken  
To trophies that I hadn't won

I’m here today to celebrate you  
You, all of you, deserve this toast  
You are so few, but I don't hate you  
Permit me, though, this little roast

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**Author notes:** 3\. What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, f\*\*k and smoke plenty of cigarettes. Charles Bukowski https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783529-Quotes-on-alcohol-drunkenness