{"id":12345,"date":"2020-11-21T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T13:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=12345"},"modified":"2020-11-21T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T13:50:25","slug":"charles-bukowski-on-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=12345","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bukowski on drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

in the cupboard sits my bottle<\/em>
\nlike a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers.<\/em>
\nI drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony,<\/em>
\nsunlight and maddened birds are everywhere,<\/em>
\nthe phone rings gamboling its sound<\/em>
\nagainst the odds of the crooked sea;<\/em>
\nI drink deeply and evenly now,<\/em>
\nI drink to paradise<\/em>
\nand death<\/em>
\nand the lie of love.<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

My beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn\u2019t become obvious yourself.<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I hid in bars, because I didn’t want to hide in factories.<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

stay with the beer.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

beer is continuous blood.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

a continuous lover.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer or experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @\u00a0CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12362,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions\/12362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}