Shilpa, The Alcoholic- Assignment 8

Shilpa

Get Drunk

Always be drunk.That's it!The great imperative!In order not to feel Time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders,grinding you into the earth,get drunk and stay that way.On what?On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever.But get drunk.And if you sometimes happen to wake upon the porches of a palace,in the green grass of a ditch,in the dismal loneliness of your own room,your drunkenness gone or disappearing,ask the wind,the wave,the star,the bird,the clock,ask everything that flees,everything that groans or rolls or sings,everything that speaks,ask what time it is;and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock will answer you:"Time to get drunk!Don't be martyred slaves of Time,Get drunk!Stay drunk!On wine, virtue, poetry, whatever!"

Shilpa is an alcoholic which is why I thought that this poem related to her. she started drinking when she was very young so that she wouldn't feel so much pain while she was with costumers but now shes addicted to it. It is her way of escaping the horrible world she lives in.