oneirophrenia | A big ol' Dave-sized shot of Baudelaire

"Get Drunk," by Charles Baudelaire

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters;
that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's
horrible burden one which breaks your shoulders and bows
you down, you must get drunk without cease.

But with what?
With wine, poetry, or virtue
as you choose.
But get drunk.

And if, at some time, on steps of a palace,
in the green grass of a ditch,
in the bleak solitude of your room,
you are waking and the drunkeness has already abated,
ask the wind, the wave, the stars, the clock,
all that which flees,
all that which groans,
all that which rolls,
all that which sings,
all that which speaks,
ask them, what time it is;
and the wind, the wave, the stars, the birds, and the clock,
they will all reply:

"It is time to get drunk!

So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time,
get drunk, get drunk,
and never pause for rest!
With wine, poetry, or virtue,
as you choose!"

Poetry...music...electronics...the cold predawn wind at 6:00am...a warm touch...soft skin...eyes like laserfilled garnets...or, if worse comes to worse, Sapporo beer or Jose Cuervo--drink it all and never surface into the dull slog of life. Get drunk? I say to you, Mister B, stay drunk.