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October 1971

Once Over Lightly

Sense and nonsense on the road to recovery

OUR TWO DRUNKS are off and running (as best they can) again this month. Being industrious types, they are first discovered doing their best to move a piano out of a tenth-story apartment. Drunk #1 conceives a clever plan: 'I'll rig a rope over that beam on the roof, tie one end around the piano, and throw the other end down to you. Then I'll push the piano out the window. You hang on tight to your end of the rope while I come down, and then we can lower the piano together, real slow!"

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