Creativity Quote by Sly Stone

A joke about disability lands like a gut-punch because it’s really a joke about dependency. “Was on my last leg” is a dead-common idiom for being broke, spent, almost finished. Sly Stone twists it into literal slapstick - so depleted he can’t even “borrow my friend’s extra peg.” The line turns a casual metaphor into a physical image, and that sudden concreteness is the point: hardship isn’t poetic, it’s awkward, bodily, and humiliating in ways language usually tries to soften.

It’s also classic Sly: funk as social commentary that dances while it bites. The humor is tight but not gentle; it carries a sly (no pun intended) accusation. If you can’t even borrow a peg, the safety net isn’t just frayed - it’s gone. The “friend” matters as much as the “peg.” This isn’t solo suffering; it’s a scene of community failing at the exact moment community is supposed to show up. The gag exposes how quickly solidarity becomes conditional when there’s real cost involved.

Contextually, Sly’s work often balances utopian togetherness with the comedown: promises of “everyday people” unity running into money, addiction, burnout, and industry exploitation. This line reads like that crash in miniature - a one-bar vignette of someone who’s exhausted every option, even the undignified ones. The brilliance is that it never begs for sympathy. It makes you laugh, then makes you notice what you laughed at: not disability, but the indignity of scarcity and the thinness of “friends” when the bill comes due.