Eggtooth Breaks Open: If It Wasn't For The Drugs And Alcohol (Sept. 23)

Thursday, September 10, 2015

If it wasn't for the drugs and alcohol,

I wouldn't have been able to stand

being a plumber.

If it wasn't for the drugs and alcohol,

I wouldn't have been driven to Buddhism.

If it wasn't for the drugs and alcohol,

I never would have written a single word.

If it wasn't for the drugs and alcohol,

I might have been a normal dad, and

my daughter would still ignore me.

If it wasn't for the drugs and alcohol,

I might have become like everyone else....

lost in a sober, pedestrian view of the world,

waking each morning intact for the next

cog to grind me into lifeless atoms.

At September 10, 2015 at 1:40 PM , John Tischer said...: I never drank when I was working in theatre. It was too all
consuming, ergo, no need to drink. I only lost maybe half a day of plumbing due to hangover. When I taught Shambhala, there
were a couple of times I went overboard. I'm always drunk when I write...that's a lie, but, that's all I can remember.

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