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Article: DRINKING WITH LI PO.(Poem)
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- The Antioch Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
- Author:
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And I'm thinking America, I'm thinking and that's as far as I'm getting.
It's one of those nights when we're up to our ears in wool and hats
even though we're in the house and there's the last of someone's fence
in the stove, but we're still shivering despite being on bottle number three,
or four, of vodka, a tsar's drink, and I'm eating turkey they've slaughtered
special for me, saving me all the dark meat, which reminds them of sheep,
even though I like white meat best, but I've never been a good guest anyway: