Kill The Bottle And Live A Little: Compendium 1 is a selection of poems from the author's first five books Easy Battles For Lazy Armies, After The First Shot, 4th & Hill Is Gone Forever, Poetastard, and The Sound Of Typing. Meant as an introduction to the Authors works, it shows his early stages of writing as an Author living from meal to meal, writing for the pleasure and sanity of it.