Party Animals Quotes

“A lot of us who were from Lizzy in particular, those who were in the front line of leadership, we were not drinkers or smokers. We liked to party and have fun, go to the dance/nightclubs, and we would take our tool [gun]. If we see fellas we had to deal with, then we dealt with them. When you look at it, Scrooge was never a drinker or a smoker. I knew he would drink his Guinness every now and then, but other than that, that was it. Then there was Troit, he never used to drink nor smoke. And I could call off a lot of fellas who never used to drink nor smoke, and yet they were die-hard gangsters.
Then he stopped and asked me, Do you used to drink and smoke?
I just smiled and answered, No.
Satisfied with himself, Apples said with passion,
“My point exactly. When we were gangbanging out there, that was our drug. It was the lifestyle itself that got us high. Shelton ‘Apples’ Burrows reform gang leader”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“The Great Carouser by Stewart Stafford

The Great Carouser approaches,
His belly as stacked cheddar rolls,
Used as a springboard for lust,
And a battering ram for tavern doors.

Shrieks of terror and welcome,
Greet his arrival with ale demands,
Tankards clank and merriment begins,
Lewd ditties and jokes by the bar.

Balancing acts on tables,
With tongues held hostage,
By braggadocio squatters,
In an intoxicated stranglehold.

Slurred speech and equilibrium loss,
Signal festivities end for the gang,
Staggering out into the starlit street,
Partners on each arm for shady exertions.

Then waking as if mauled by a bear,
A quick drink and a greasy feast initiated,
For the strange girls snoring in his bed,
The Great Carouser has struck again.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Cycle of the Midnight Ape by Stewart Stafford

Janus creature of paradox,
Liquid hostage of conscience,
Swinging midnight's ape,
On cartwheel chandeliers.

This being's bender reveal —
Of the existential, maddening itch,
To sling aside life’s burdens,
And slake its raging thirst.

An anthropological anomaly,
Naked in its contradictions,
A déjà vu loop grinds on,
This peerless hellraiser royal.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford