"Whiskey Blind makes on e think twice"," Like a sick hunger really up in the pages",,
Most modern writers lack the skill and drive to possess our minds for very long. I want to be driven to think and having done so, realize another step in my life's dream
Would i trade the words to stand alone,
and be a poet whose words stand in stone
Would i trade words to keep me in verse and rythme
For all time
Would i trade the words to flip sonnet and lyre on the toss of a dime
Yes i would trade words for sure to make it certain my words endure
Yes id trade words that keep my words in place and bring a smile to your face
Hard to believe, but men at war like to remember their loves.
As real as war and death are to a soldier; quiet moments in the trenches with a picture of a love is just as compelling and real!

I know you have seen the wreckage of addiction! It must have affected you in such a way, that you were able to put it in the work you have given us. Only criticism is that you misspelled the first word of the sixth line. Only one [r] in staring. This is full of simple, straightforward sentences that give basic
information that runs smoothly through out the poem. I like he title, in that it clings to the theme and readily caught my attention. Just what a title is supposed to do. I'm going to read the rest of what you have posted here on Neo and hopefully they will be as good or better than this! ~ Geezer.
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You treat the subject with a great rawness of images. The beginning drew me into the poem so I felt the developing narrative.

If I had to offer any suggestion, under penalty of fine, I would drop "seduced". Too many syllables in the poems longest line and not sure you need it as the rest suggests enough about it...indeed the whole poem is about seduction.

at a howling blood-spattered dingo in a crater
to wander off half-naked into a bush of thorns

Otherwise much more accessible to this reader without shame, and very haunting.