The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. (Theodore Roethke)

The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.

Theodore Roethke

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