Two Drinks Away From Chaos

What lies on the border between the commonplace and the chaotic? What lurks beyond the veil of sanity? What madness awaits us between this life and the next? Two Drinks Away From Chaos explores that thin line - that sliver of sunlight that separates day and darkness. Pick your poison, and raise your glasses folks. This round is on the house. Aurelio Lopez III tells deceptively simple stories through a kind of poetry that makes you read between the lines and cover your eyes as you anticipate the terror of all that his words imply. There's an impishly dark humor at play in this book that made me cackle with sick delight as I gleefully read along too, but there's just as many poems here that are deadly serious, always on the brink of death. The title - a pun on Two Drinks Away From Crying - perfectly reflects the balancing act that this morbid poet runs, teetering on the razor's edge between insanity and the abyss. What a delightfully sick book! - Michael Arnzen (Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Gorelets Omnibus)