They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits'end.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms107:27.

I who have cursed The drunken officer of British rule, how choose Between this Africa and the English tongue I love? Betray them both, or give back what they give? How can I face such slaughter and be cool? How can I turn from Africa and live?

-Walcott, Derek Alton
  In a Green Night,'A Far Cry from Africa'.

: Do not let him touch you! It is not true That drunken men cannot beget, And if he touch he must beget And you must bear his murderer. Deaf! Both deaf!

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
OLD MAN1939  Purgatory.