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42 lines
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- Poetry
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date: 2021-09-02 09:00:00 +0000
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tags:
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- Vices
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title: Quenchless
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{{< poem >}}
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The only
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Drink that quenches
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Dulls the senses
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Until
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All discretion
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Is lost.
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What
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Enabled this dependence?
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My college attendance?
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Is that their
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Accreditation's cost?
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Is it
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The fault of my genes?
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A man who
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Couldn't stay clean
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Then passed down
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The{{< / poem >}} ~~bottles~~ {{< poem >}}battles he lost?
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Or was it
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My lack of socializing
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That kept me subsidizing
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Charisma
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With each drink
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I came across?
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{{< / poem >}}
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***
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<div style="font-size: x-small; padding-bottom: 20px; text-align: left;">These are the main reasons I would <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPpZhPapkmc" target="_blank">take to drink</a>. With the social restrictions during 2020, drinking became even more prevalent due to <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7763183/" target="_blank">stress, increased alcohol availability, and general boredom</a>. I haven't found any studies regarding drinking and post-quarantine, but I could see another uptick in drinking due to people storming the bars once restrictions were lifted. As someone who moved to a new city knowing hardly a soul, I know I certainly did.
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