Get Drunk! (NOT FF)

I recently dug up an old book of poetry I wrote, and taped inside was this prose by Baudelaire. I fell in love with it all over again, so I'm sharing it with you.

. . . . .

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

that breaks your shoulders and bows you down,

you must get drunk without ceasing.

But what with?

With wine, with poetry, or with virtue,

as you choose.

But get drunk.

And if, at some time,

on the steps of a palace,

in the green grass of a ditch,

in the bleak solitude of your room,

you are waking up when drunkenness

has already abated,

ask the wind,

the wave,

the star,

the clock,

all that which flees,

all that which groans,

all that which speaks,

ask them what time it is;

and the wind,

the wave,

the star,

the bird,

the clock will reply:

"It is time to get drunk!

So that you may not be

the martyred slaves of Time,

get drunk,

and never pause for rest!

With wine,

with poetry,

or with virtue,

as you choose!"

-Get Drunk! by Charles Baudelaire