The Breathalyzer Tests

The Bar holds your keys until you are ready

Have all drivers use a machine to test their sobriety

Every one takes a straw and at they turn

Blows into the machine and if there is concern

Restrictions are placed on the drivers keys

Exceptions are never made even with the compelling pleas

And yet he found the loophole

Told a nondrinking man to rest his keys in the bartenders bowl  

He then drank to a stupor when he was ready to leave

Asked the acquaintance to make the deceitful retrieve

Liquor is a belligerent buddy who never accepts no

You feel compelled to lie, cheat and hide wherever you go

Zaps away your inhibitions as it did with him

Every night was a risk but that night, Tim

Risked more getting into that car

The rain fell, it was dark and before he got very far

Emergency brakes failed him and he struck a lady

She was trying to cross to meet with her hubby

The same man who would juggle Tim’s keys at night

She was his wife for 10 years and didn’t live to see a new daylight