The New Rule

From Chapter 1: THE TAVERN
Ghazal 1861
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O rule of the intoxicated, falling into each other is to quarrel and fall into turmoil.  
The lover is worse than the drunkard, the lover is of that kind; I say, what is love but falling into the mine of gold?  
What is gold itself? The lover is the king of kings, becoming safe from dying and falling from the crown of the head.  
The dervish in his cloak and with a jewel in his embrace, why should he be ashamed of falling from door to door?  
Last night that moon came drunk, with a belt thrown on the path, unaware of his drunkenness and falling from the belt.  
I said, "O heart, rise up, take the wine in hand and risk your life," for such a time has come, it is time to fall.  
To join hands with the garden's nightingale, to fall into sweetness with the spiritual parrot.  
I, heartless and devoted, have fallen on your path; by God, I do not know how to fall elsewhere.  
If I broke your cup, I am drunk, my beloved, I am drunk; let me be, do not take me from my hand and fall into danger.  
This is a newborn rule, and this is a new custom, breaking the glass and falling into the glass.

Barks Interpretation

It’s the old rule that drunks have to argue