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Original poem reprinted online here: "Happy Hour" by Chard deNiord Originally read: July 3, 2013 More information about the Poet: Chard Denoird The epigraph in the poem is from Elizabeth Bishop's, " Visit to St. Elizabeths ."  The form of the poem is a cumulative structure like the song "The Old Lady Who Ate A Fly."  How does Elizabeth Bishop's poem apply to this one?  The structure isn't the same, but something is accumulating. The poem itself is narrative, and there's a part of me that thinks this poem would be great as a short story, but at the same time I like the idea of break up -- stanzas and lines for this poem. The narrative starts out as the speaker describing the last day of his job with, "Patients [who] glanced at me from the lounge" and with the speaker then declares, 'It's happy hour ! / All drinks are free!' / 'You're as crazy as we are,' Ruben said."  With these lines the location is s...