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Last Line: The corkless is superior - %I know for I have tried
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1101; Poem: 112
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism


Between the form of Life and Life
The difference is as big
As Liquor at the Lip between
And Liquor in the Jug
The latter - excellent to keep -
But for ecstatic need
The corkless is superior -
I know for I have tried






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