The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.


"My Papa's Waltz," ll. 1-4 - The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)

Theodore Roethke Quotes

The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.

The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.

The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.

The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.