TRANSPARENT BOTTLES
Why do people drink vodka?
They drink to make all the children of the world cry.
They drink to snack on pickles.
They drink to remember the dead and God.
They drink to drink.
They drink to kill people.
They drink to love.
They drink to be violent.
They drink to forget.
They drink to live.
Father drinks because he can’t help drinking.
My mother crushes a pill into the soup. The movements of her wrist are swift and agile. Now my father will exit the bathroom, whistling, and with hands trembling hungrily, he will try the chicken soup where the secret that mother and I share has dissolved. I can’t swallow my food. He quickly finishes his soup, drinks a glass of ice water, goes to his room. I think, maybe he is going to die, the pill will affect his blood circula
