Serious Drinkers

Through the drunken looking glass. Through the drunken mirror. Into the drunken inverted world.

 

Drunkenly bewildered. But bewilderment is understanding, on another plane. Drunkenly lost. But loss is also finding, on another plane. Drunken rambling. But rambling is always precision, on another plane. Drunken obscenities. But obscenities are the sweetest poetry on another plane. Drunken lamentation. But our laments are celebrations, on another plane. Drunken despair. But despair is joy, on another plane. Drunken hopelessness. But hopelessness is hope itself, on another plane. Drunken hatred. But hatred is also love on a higher plane.

 

What looks like our self-destruction is really self-preservation. What looks like sinking is really elevation. What looks like collapse is really rising. What looks like self-mutilation is a way of putting ourselves back together. What looks like degeneracy is a regeneration …

 

In another dimension, we’re sober. We’re upstanding. We ‘re the most lucid people you’ve ever met. In another dimension, it all makes sense, just as nothing makes sense here.

 

Stop seeing alcoholism as a disease. It’s a blessing. It’s an exit route. It’s the only way out. It’s an escape route. It’s a higher Sobriety – much higher.

 

Hamlet is my drunken name.

Macbeth is mine.

Diogenes is mine, Just call me the Dog.

My name is Bacchae.

That’s a plural.

 

We’re the sons and daughters of alcoholics. Generations of them. Of died-young drunkards. Of drinking-themselves-to-death drunkards.

Somehow they reproduced. Somehow they gave birth to children. Who could of course, only become alcoholics in turn.

 

Foetal alcohol syndrome: we can blame everything on that. We were ruined by drink. Born ruined! And now we’ll complete the ruination. We’ll see it through to the end. To the end of the night!

 

Drunkard … a lovely word. What’s the etymology of drunkard?

 

Really our drunkenness is an attunement. To how things are. Really, it’s a receptivity. Really, our drunkenness is a satellite dish, turned to receive signals from the sky.

 

We’re serious drinkers. Our seriousness lies in our drinking. In the way we drink. In the seriousness of our drinking. In the concentratedness of our drinking. In its focus.