A Toast

[dougs.livejournal.com]

This was the result of a ten-minute-fic challenge over on the Yahoo! group -- I posted it on Monday 30th January. I wrote it in under ten minutes. Just. And I've changed two words since then.

A Toast

"You have *got* to be kidding me!" Hawkeye opined
As he peered at the glass in his hand:
"I would bet that this alcohol makes you go blind,
And I'm sure that was not what you've planned."

But the man sitting opposite, hiding a smile,
Poured a glass of the nectar himself,
And he raised it to toast his own cunning and guile
with the words "to your very rude health".