Drinking Alone In My Apartment on New Year's Eve

A) Would not be half so embarrassing
If I didn't feel compelled to write about it
But here I jolly well am, aren't I

B) Tastes more like quinine
Than anything else

C) Is lit with a ring of sweet olive candles
I lean away from to avoid
Setting the place on fire with my breath

D) Is only depressing if I stop believing

That next year will be different

Somehow