Amarisa

You know what's scary? The fact that "Absinthian" didn't have any red squiggly line under it in Word.

Anyway, here's just something I made up one day after browsing through Deviant Art and finding a few pictures of the Green/Absinth Fairy. My mind started wandering and this is what appeared. It's just something fun. I don't know if I'm going to do anything with it, I just want to know what others think.

And no, I wasn't on anything at the time of writing this.

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Absinthian Musings

A dog is man’s best friend, a cat is a witch’s best friend, and absinth is a poet’s best friend. Over the years I’ve come to know each personally, except for a direct experience with absinth. I came close once, don’t get me wrong, but never actually wrapped my hand around the glass and lit the tiny cube aflame. Green soda with ginseng in it was the closest I got to mind-warping liquid, aside from alcohol, of course.

Now, that luscious ivy-green liquid is the stuff of legend, as the saying goes. Every poet, every writer, every person who has attempted to dabble in the art of words knows of it. Whether they’ve seen it in movies or gone to the famed Moulin Rouge itself way-back-when, where poets would sit for hours staring into space, hardly noticing as the brilliant green liquid slowly worked its way to the bottom of the glass and disappeared entirely. Back when Toulouse had a name for himself and the stuff was easy to get to; back when it was legal. I ask you, if we can get to alcohol, and we can get to drugs, why not an alcohol with the same effect as a drug? It would be a hell of a lot easier than mixing marijuana with ginseng tea. That stuff will make you as horny as an incubus, or succubus respectively, and society certainly has enough of them running around as it is.

Don’t ask me why I suddenly started talking about absinth. Perhaps it was a picture I saw, or perhaps you simply strike me as the type of person who would know about it; I have no idea. Don’t confuse it with abstinence. In fact, it would be hilarious if you did, considering what both words are. I can hear it now: Use abstinence with absinth! Yeah, that would go over well. Sales would be through the roof! Tell a person not to do something and what happens? They do it anyway. Of course, you could always use absinth with abstinence. I'm sure others have done it before.

Where was I? Ah yes. Back in my day... Well... it was illegal. Still is, so I can’t really use that phrase. All the same, back then, I hardly knew a thing about poetry linked with narcotic beverages. When I saw people drink it, I thought they got drunk, that’s all. The green fairy was as significant to me as a pink elephant. I simply figured they linked to a blue giraffe and a purple lion, and they all went skipping down the yellow paved road to visit a giant ultra-violet head floating in the air, watching out for red tigers and orange bears along the way. One gay rainbow, smiling and laughing in complete hysteria as if nothing else around them mattered and the world did not exist.

I don’t know why I mentioned cats and dogs. They always bicker. Give them a shot of absinth and that bickering would stop, among other things. Of course, have a shot of absinth and you’ll soon be seeing kittens and puppies pouncing their way across the room and rolling together as if they were the same species.

Why does this matter? I have no idea.

Chris Miller

Interseting musings. Maybe I'll give it a try, although I don't really drink and it's been a long time since any serious psychedelics. Would it be like dropping acid and Quaaludes you think? I've done that!

Noticed one typo:

"Don’t confuse it was abstinence."
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Amarisa

Ah, thanks for that correction. Don't you just hate those ones that start with the same letter and thus your mind skips over it? It's like reading that one paragraph of completely mispelled words and your mind automatically registers what it should be.

And what's Quaaludes??? You lost me on that one...

Chris Miller

Quaaludes are methaqualone (also Mandrax), a powerful hypnotic tranquilizer (non-barbiturate sleeping pill) with stimulant and hyper-spastic qualities (a lot like booze). It is the drug that sort of did Elvis P. in. Highly recommended if you enjoy saying the same stupid shit over and over and falling down a lot. And acid makes them even more fun.

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MisterSpider

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