What Drinking Became

   Drinking became an electrical storm in my brain. Alcohol cut off the electrical flow and memories could not be formed. Right now, this very instant, I'm in a dream in a library where bottles without labels line the shelves instead of books. The bottles are illuminated from within, each a different color, different shape.
   And now, and now, and now I am awake...

from All Drinking Aside: The Destruction, Deconstruction and Reconstruction of An Alcoholic Animal, Chapter One (Rough Draft)