Sip This

It happened when I was only thirteen

I was a swimmer on our park district team

We were at summer afternoon meet

Sun was beating down, blazing beams

Glanced off the rippling pool water

Temperature was in the high nineties

I was feeling a bit dizzy, and my heat

Was up in a few minutes, still remember

Going to my coach, telling him I was sick

He felt my head and handed me a jug

Said sit in the shade and sip this stuff slowly

I did what he said, as I usually always did

After a few minutes I was feeling much better

My heat was called, climbed up on the block

Took off in a flash with the starter's gun blast

Won my butterfly heat and went on to

Finish with my best time ever in the final

Don’t know what I would have done

Without my coach’s advice and his jug

Of cool orange juice coming to my rescue

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The Drink Poetry writing prompt entry

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Write a poem. You (or your character) take a sip of a drink and feel different. What happens?

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