This combines so many different approaches, from deep verse to deep scholarship, from deadly serious to coy, through the wiles of seduction all the way to wisdom-inflected advertising. As a multi-occasional poem it seems a miracle (as well as a fine recipe). From the standpoint of a bar patron, it would, for me, prove, the mythical fixed-point-of-contemplation-that-refuses-to-stand-still, simultaneously a beacon of sobriety and a half-drunken pole star, burning, yes, and tilting, yes, yes.
Cheers!
Nemo
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