| A lot of people say it is just the junkies and alkies, but it isn't, there's a lot of people my age involved. |
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| Alone, huddled in bed against the cold, the narrator remembers when, as a child, he saw the alkies return from picking apples in Michigan. |
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| He knows all the bars, and all the alkies who hang out in them. |
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| Yet if it's a non-famous person, they're called alkies and junkies, and there's no sympathy whatsoever. |
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| They are seen as junkies or alkies and all things derogatory. |
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| I'd be happy if folks would leave us in peace, especially alkies. |
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| They're just like alkies, or chain-smokers or food freaks, only worse. |
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