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Once In Your Life

Baudalaire advised us all to “get drunk!” I'd say, I prefer you encounter a skunk Be it two- or four-legged relish the smell The closest, I hope, you’ll come to hell. December 11, 2022

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 12/23/2022 3:08:00 AM

I have smelled it from afar, and I never want to smell a skunk up close. If there are skunks in hell, I certainly do not want to get close to it.

Jenna Logan

Date: 12/11/2022 8:44:00 AM

I don't think I'll partake enough again to get drunk as a skunk.

Jenna Logan
Date: 12/11/2022 9:14:00 AM

That's part of the fun of poetry, there are different takes on the same words. I've encountered a few too many skunks in my life so far. A few of them right here in the soup who lift their tails and spew as if their stink comes from their mouths. LOL Couldn't help writing that.

L Milton Hankins
Date: 12/11/2022 9:10:00 AM

I think Baudalaire must have been an alcoholic! I wouldn't recommend "drunk as a skunk," at all. I meant to say everyone should encounter a skunk at least one time in their life and experience the disgust of it. Reading it again, it came out like you read it!