The author is forced to admit his difficult relationship with alcohol. It is not for nothing that Dmitry Bykov pays so much attention to this topic in his educational lectures. Alcohol destroys poets! The collection contains relevant poems extracted from the first 25 “Belogorsk cycles” (2010 – 2017). On the cover is the poet’s companion in numerous libations, Vladimir Zubkov (still from the author’s video “Alcohol in a new container”).