Whiskey all around for all
who go
quietly, almost unnoticed,
who never made an obvious difference,
who never brought anyone
to anger,
to laughter,
to grief.
Jameson perhaps for the unfamilied, unfriended,
Old Forester perhaps for the homeless
Maker’s Mark
straight up for the interchangeable
priests who brings solace,
Auchentoshan for the rest of us
toasting
the ordinary
and the
long forgotten.
brief salvage 