This is about getting high and trying to drink soda.

[underdogx]

Tony's got the bends
and the bubbles burn
ginger in his lungs

(The trachea is not the esophagus,
you stupid boy!)

O, wretched effervescence
of drunk Frenchmen
playing with matches
speaking nonsense like
"les choses sont contre nous!"

(Well, then call the fucking militia,
I'm being drowned as we speak!)

He needs the buoyant, boisterous burping
of drunk Frenchmen
fat with wine and glazed duck
half a carafe from song
spilling out into the street
tossing cigarettes
to call a cough
and release them between his teeth.