Saturday, August 9, 2025

Drunk on being drunk Aug. 9, 2025

  

I ceased being sober for the first time in some time last night, envisioning myself back at that German bar, her long legs competing with the legs of the bar stools we sat on, her lips dripping over the lip of her wine glass, and I, all these years later, sucking in drinks until I’m as close to drug as I can get, swaying as I swayed back then, aching for what I wanted them, too, checking and rechecking my telephone for messages I know will never come, aching to repeat what we did then but never since, drunk on being drunk, the moment when I let down more than just my hair, getting inflated on that memory, churching up the broth until my hands shake and fingers drip of wax from a time when I could excuse it as being real, drunk on being drunk on her again


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