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Indulgence

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Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)

Sage advice to heed in youth -
Excess, a drug we justify.
And indulgence is better than the truth -
Drink and dance and laugh and lie.

So choose your partners without care;
Keep your scruples lean and few.
Temptation wanders everywhere -
Love the reeling midnight through.

Drink and revel one last time;
Seek out pleasure where it hides.
Restraint's an over-rated crime -
For tomorrow we shall die!

And in the dawn of pain's regret
With heads aflame and clothes askew,
We may promise to repent
(But, alas, we never do!)
For :iconkiwi-damnation:'s DFC. This is a Glosa. A Glosa starts with a quatrain from a famous poem (or poem by a famous writer). The traditional Glosa has four 10-line stanzas expanding on the quatrain. I had completed two of them...and then lost them. Fortunately, the Glosa has taken a more modern turn as to form.

The opening quatrain is by Dorothy Parker.


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I wish I could favorite this over and over again XD Well don!