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Tom Edwards' Poem "Why I don't drink anymore"
Thanks to my friend DeeJay for pointing this out to me - it was on a BBC2 show. An excellent summary of alcoholism I changed because I have the sickness of alcoholism, alcoholism doesn't come in bottles it comes in people. You should have seen me. I drank for happiness and became unhappy; I drank for joy and became miserable. I drank to be out-going and became self-centred; I drank for sociability and became argumentative and lonely; I drank for sophistication and became crude and obnoxious. I drank for friendship and made enemies, I drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self-pity; I drank for sleep and awakened without rest. I drank for strength and felt weak. I drank for masculinity and it sapped my potency; I drank medicinally and got sick. I drank because I thought my job called for it and lost my job. I drank to stimulate thought and blacked out. I drank to make conversation and got to where I couldn't talk at all; I drank to forget and became haunted. I drank for freedom...
Ah, nothing like a live performance. Good on ya! I played bass for four years in an alt. rock band in college, and that first song at the beginning of the set, every time, the stage fright was palpable. Then as the song progressed, and your fingers loosened up, and you got into it...it would all go away. Then the whole experience just energized you. Sigh...I miss those days...when things like a Precision vs. a Jazz and the merits of a fretless carried the weight of the world in their importance. And now, in my closet, they all gather dust.
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