the Wharf Rat says

that all those drunks

that stagger down the hill

from the inn are

just wastrels, society's unwanted;

and I remind him that

he is an inveterate drunk as well,

and he says,

"yeah, sure, but I'm

already at the

bottom of the hill."

October 23, 2011.

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