Showing posts with label Alcoholism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alcoholism. Show all posts

Monday, April 01, 2024

How many do you smoke? Well, at the moment I’m down to 2 lighters a day.


What is this thing you call substance abuse?
All I wanna do is forget and get loose.
Drinking and smoking over and over
What's so great about a life that's sober?

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Sunday, July 02, 2023

There, but for the grace of God, go I

They’re dying. 
They have a disease that’s killing them – and wants him on his own, drinking. 
Drinking himself to death. 
It’s a terrible disease he has. 
And the irony of it is that it’s a disease that tells him that he hasn’t a disease. 
His body is telling him he’s dying – telling the world that he’s dying, and his brain is telling him to keep on drinking. 
And they don’t understand – sure what do they know!? 
It’s mad. It’s baffling. And cunning. 
But there’s hope.

- Glassland (2014)