Notice of absence from Tristan Robert Lange
Friends, I’m doing my best to keep up with comments. 😅 I’m still current on my own poems and first replies on others’ work, but this season has been a bit of a twister. Figured I’d drop a quick note so you don’t think I’ve vanished or gone flaky.
Read. Write. Rise. Realize. 🤘💀🖤
Friends, I’m doing my best to keep up with comments. 😅 I’m still current on my own poems and first replies on others’ work, but this season has been a bit of a twister. Figured I’d drop a quick note so you don’t think I’ve vanished or gone flaky.
Read. Write. Rise. Realize. 🤘💀🖤
Call it what you will—
Aggression against difference—
Laugh at it even. Mock sobriety.
Ignorance spews irony
Forever missed. Chuggers chant.
Overture of the pint glass crescendos,
Regarding no others in their wake.
Normalizing American sobriety
In place of better medications.
Aggravated alcohol agnosia.
Some have chosen to speak
Of sobriety as a thing to snub.
Best not accept the status quo,
Especially as it races toward a cliff.
Real recovery comes in many ways.
POET'S NOTE:
Part of the Truth, Applied collection.
© 2025 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
First published on tristanrobertlange.com, March 27, 2026.
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Comments3
nicely said. Your poem revolves around addiction, recovery, and societal attitudes towards alcohol use and sobriety. It highlights the tension between societal expectations and personal choices regarding substance use.
This poem requires deep thought and an open mind. Addiction comes in many forms. Alcohol the most accepted and legal. "In place of better medications" a key line. Self medication is the answer for many. AA touted as the best treatment has an astonishing low recovery rate. What does that say of other methods? Beyond alcohol are addictions to things we do not usually consider, sex, even love, anger, depression all considered behaviors or emotions in normal amounts but addictions when overdone and relied upon. Alcohol itself an aggression or rebellion at times and a conformity at others. This poem is more complex than meets the eye. Nicely penned Tristan
Now lookie here, Popeye never has agnosia, cos he recognises......what? WCAT! lol.
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