Anyone who can go through life
Sober, free and clear headed
Without killing themselves or someone else
Deserves a fucking award.
Without the comforting
Tang of wine or whiskey
I would have been
Another basket case,
Another Starkweather,
Born to raise hell
And fanning
The fucking flames.
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