Quaaludes Again
Quaaludes Again - meaning Summary
Intoxication and Comic Collapse
The poem portrays a woman rendered clumsy and uninhibited by taking Quaaludes. Her fumbling down stairs, erotically absurd encounter with a chair, and indiscriminate readiness for partners convey physical impairment and lowered social restraint. The short quatrain uses stark, direct images to compress a fallen, comic moment of drugged desire and disorientation. It presents intoxication as both ludicrous and disarming rather than sentimental or moralistic.
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