a further consideration of time on the last day of the year

You have to be always drunk.
That’s all there is to it–it’s the only way.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time
that breaks your back and bends you to the earth,
you have to be continually drunk.

But on what?
Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish.
But be drunk…

– be drunk, charles baudelaire (1821-1867)

December 31, 2002 – 4:12 pm | By Thomas | Posted in Observations | Comments (1)
  • JO

    Drunk on Perrier and Dorothy Parker and as the New Years rolls in Drunk on Cartoons… HAPPY NEW YEAR!