well if we stay out all night smoking and drinking and talking i think maybe wencould figure out how to level out the playing field for people like you and menand the guys at the end of the bar who downnglass after glass without making a soundnand think about giving up findingntheir place in this world.ni get a call from a girl who was throwing a show. she said she had to cancel it duento medical costs she incurred after drinking more than her body could take.nshe said, my hand still hurts from where they used the IV,nbut other than that, i don't feel much of anything. nand i'm sorry but we'll set up somethingnfor some other time.ni think it was laura and i who were talking about how everything important we donwe do with our hands- how we reach, how we hold, how we break, how we feel, how we move,nhow we toss a few back just to handle the painnfrom the place where technology entered the veinnin a sad attempt to keep us alivenand it's all pretty much the same hand that we're dealtnand it's all pretty much the same hand that we've heldnand it's all pretty much the same hand that we dealtnwe'll set up something else for some other time.