Addicts
Kipling wrote If
With the aid of a spliff.
Wittgenstein
Drank gallons of wine.
Gide
Was on speed.
Tom Paine
Used cocaine.
Proust wrote A la recherche du temps perdu
Sniffing glue.
Anais Nin
Was on gin.
Both the Grimms
Abused Pimm’s.
Mao Zedong
Was rarely without a bong.
Alan Garner
Went for marijuana.
Kerouac
Was a fan of smack.
Even Jimmy Durante
Liked an extra asti spumante.
Creative children like to be uppity
And are not persuaded by a simple cuppa tea.
This was discovered by a scientist
Quite possibly when either stoned or pissed.
