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Paul McCutchen's avatar

That's the difference between me and a poet. Getting drunk outside by myself was just that. Now LI Po wrote a nice poem about it, but I woke with a bad headache.

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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

One legend has it that Li Po drowned while jumping drunkenly from a boat to chase the moon's reflection in a river. This must be the poem that inspired such a legend - whether true or not. In any case, he seems to have enjoyed his 'pot of wine' and the moonlight, and he produced quite a poem as a result of it - rather than sleeping with the fishes.

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