Drunkenness & War

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I can’t find my car

no wait, I don’t own a car

where are my car keys

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I see the vodka
and the vodka sees through me
we are not equals

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Write a Zappai using the theme of drunkenness.
Zappai (雑俳) is a form of Japanese poetry rooted in haikai. It is related to, but separate from, haiku and senryū. Lee Gurga defines zappai as a form of poetry that “includes all types of seventeen syllable poems that do not have the proper formal or technical characteristics of haiku.”

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This Means War

If I had stayed the course
I would never need realise
My path would lead to this
And that my reaction means
I can no longer escape war

Those who revel in war
Hardly see its full course
Such a commitment means
One must forget common sense and realise
No sense can be made of this

What savage pastime of man is this
That ravages the land as war
Which buries more than we realise
And destroys all in its due course
Yet continues on by any means

But I have the means
And know I can do this
He is only a bunny of course
And we ducks know war
A fact my enemy doesn’t realise

I quack my battle cry, “Of course you realise,
This means war!”

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Write a Pentina having a theme of war.
The pentina is an accentual-syllabic poetic form, characterized by the use of five verses of five lines each, with a two-line envoi, for a total of 27 lines.
The pentina does not utilize rhyme, but relies on the use of repeated end-words. The set pattern works as follows:

Verse 1: a b c d e
Verse 2: e a d b c
Verse 3: c e b a d
Verse 4: d c a e b
Verse 5: b d e c a
Envoi:
a  b  c   
      d  e
      or:
    a  b
c  d  e
        
(I think it should have the same syllable count and meter as a sestina, but since I’m writing one of those already, I forwent some rules to mix it up)

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Weekly Theme:
Murisopsis Scavenger Hunt: Here

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