When the 'arf made recruit goes out to the east,
'E acts like a babe and drinks like a beast,
And he wonders because he is frequently deceased.
'Ere he is fit to serve as a soldier.
—Rudyard Kipling
Reflection
As is often said, the alcoholic is indeed King Baby, who
wonders all the time why he is not being fed and pam-
pered by adults, and why it is he dies at all because of
a few drinks.
Affirmation
If I don't live sober, I will die drunk, and never see the
face of my Maker.
