It's
a poem full of advice. One person's (
Charles B's) perspective on the world and how to get along in it. I kind of like his sentiment - that one should be drunk "On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish". Doesn't matter on what you are drunk, but be flush with something.
I like this poem. It has three stanzas, but no real lines though. It doesn't have line breaks like most poems do. It's more like three textual paragraphs. Maybe, it could be classified as a prose poem. In that case, the language better be beautiful and, luckily, it is. This line, in particular, is just fantastic: "And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the/ mournful solitude of your room, you wake again". All those 's' sounds. :).
Favorite line: "And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the/ mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or/ gone, ask the wind"
