A Sociological Treatise in Verse on the Phenomenon of Alcoholism
This 1971 poem by Sergei Stratanovsky, one of the best living Russian poets in my opinion, ends somewhat like this:
And the man down the pavement
Creeps with a sodden head
Grieving and puking
By all categorized a swine
Society’s ulcer
Existential trash
Or, to take a different angle, “the refuse of existence.”