Bad as me is the 16th studio album by american singer songwriter tom waits released on october 21 2011 by anti records the album is known to have been recorded as . Baade setaee persian wine prizing a genre of persian poetry extolling the virtues of wine carousing and celebration babuin a fanciful monster silly . An irish airman foresees his death by wb yeats this is one of my absolute favorite poems it talks of joy and of pain of the ultimate uselessness of life and . Out of the night that covers me black as the pit from pole to pole i thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul in the fell clutch of circumstance