Rehabilitering [English translation]

Good day to you, social inspector

I am an unrehabilitated lad

Please exercise your status and power

to give me some contact with existence

I thank you and bow for two hundred bucks

It will not cure much, I have a feel

But the gesture was friendly, so thank you anyway

And everything you wish for, you can never get

Good day to you, you liquor store clerk

From the social services, I have hurried here

I wish to use up my allowance

to the gain of your cash register, to the comfort of my body

I thank you and bow for your fluidum

For brief happiness and delirium

As thanking for your service and practical support

for us consumers of liquid needs

Good day to you, you constable and cop

Here you see a guy who you have seen before

Sorry for staining our tidy city

If you know anything better, I will be so glad

I thank you and bow for your assistance

to steadily get me into an ambulance

and haul me hence towards the nearest emergency ward

where they know of my flaws from before

Good day again, social inspector

I am an unrehabilitated lad

Please exercise your status and power

to give me some contact with existence

I thank you and bow for two hundred bucks

It will not cure much, I have a feel

But the gesture was friendly, so thank you anyway

And everything you wish for, you can never get

Good day again, you liquor store clerk

From the social services, I have hurried here

I wish to use up my allowance

to the gain of your cash register, to the comfort of my body

I thank you and bow for your fluidum

For brief happiness and delirium

As thanking for your service and practical support

for us consumers of liquid needs

Good day again, you constable and cop

Here you see a guy who you have seen before

Sorry for staining our tidy city

If you know anything better, I will be so glad

I thank you and bow for your assistance

to steadily get me into an ambulance

and haul me hence towards the nearest emergency ward

where they know of my flaws from before

Good day, you tidy entrepreneur

who does business regarding matters of peace

Say, do you have a box to rest inside

that suits my fragile anatomy?

From the bottom of my cirrhosis, I thank you

for the final packaging of splendid veneer

A drunken body with a teetotal soul

now says to everyone his thanks and goodbye!

• Artist:Allan Edwall