Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sytek!syteka!mr.mincemeat From: mr.mincemeat@syteka.UUCP (mr.mincemeat) Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: more drunken snivelling Message-ID: <439@syteka.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 19:04:20 EST Article-I.D.: syteka.439 Posted: Mon Mar 19 19:04:20 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 05:00:28 EST Lines: 46 (I have lots of these. You write a lot of poems about drinking when you only write while you're drinking) Sometimes I drink and think and write And often it is good. Sometimes I drink and write And some of it is good. Sometimes I drink and drink and Nothing is its own reward. ***** Depression used to stimulate me- I've written some good poems About feeling like shit Now I just feel like shit-- What is this shit Drinking used to stimulate me And I must confess Sometimes it still does; But much more often I simply go to sleep. The evening used to stimulate me But all I see tonight Is gloom closing in Doom crushing in. mr.(I got much better) mincemeat {hplabs, menlo70, zehntel, sdcrdcf}!sytek!toms