Hi, Richard—
I like the opening reference to Matthew 26 where Jesus scolds his sleepy disciples for not staying awake with him: “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Most of us can confess at least one such fall from grace. Many of us struggle daily with sobriety.
I was puzzled by
—Shank a shrunk,
fool, flaccid, drunk.
Is shank a noun (leg/knife) or a verb (stab/hit a golf ball badly)? The /nk/ alliteration works nicely to imitate the sound of retching, but the meaning eludes me. Because of its placement between two other adjectives, I take “fool” to mean “foolish” and “flaccid” to mean “impotent.” I’m stumped.
Hope this is useful.
Glenn
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