The effects of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind:
Obstruction of the liver,
Jaundice and dropsy of every cavity in the body,
Diabetes,
Voices, music.
Now the empty street
footsteps
and an empty bottle.
Falsehood,
fraud,
theft,
and murder,
An overpass.
The tangled veins
of the city below.
A car or two.
dependency
sprawl
sustainable communities
justice
sub specie aeternitatis.
Frequent and disgusting belchings,
A foetid breath of putrid animal matter,
A fatal disease of the lungs,
Madness,
Ugly.
This is something-grad,
or some unpronounceable place
with mandarin characters.
The bottle is thrown
over the high fence
into the darkness.
Footsteps hasten.
It strikes the lonely form
that is the black.
Its vapours disperse into the ether,
the anima.
And everything gets a little bit worse.
Thus we see poverty and misery, crimes and infamy, diseases and death, are all the natural and usual consequences of ardent spirits.