Earning the right to start over somewhere new (though similiar)

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I saw this wino;

He was eating grapes,

I was like, " Dude, dude you have to wait."

Until you've begged hundreds, no thousands,

of last-callers to bring you home with them

and for the time when just one more

is a knife upon your bartender's throat

After your scraggly beard is purpled

Not with wine, but with your own coughed-up blood,

and your family will not even weep for you

only then can you begin again, eat grapes.

 

it's only after

you've lost everything

 

that you're free

to do anything

jake bauer