Maria Egan's 'Things Happen When You Drink Too Much'

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Moria Egan started off her poem with a powerful statement that relates to the majority of her readers. That statement is, "Things happen when you drink too much mescal.” (Egan). My interpretation is based off of her statement from her sonnet.
Egan statement, "nothing good happens when you drink too much” is a true statement because of people have the tendency to regret their actions the morning after a night of drinking.
Translating poems is a hard task due to the ambiguity of the words written. Based off of this statement I wanted to make sure Egan's voice is still heard. I also wanted my own voice to be in there too. I am not Egan and I wasn’t there at the bar, therefore I don’t know what she was thinking at the time of her writing the

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