Tuesday, July 3, 2012

'Hair of the Dog' is how this Chapter ends...


 I guess it's no wonder that when you get to the point where you can't hold a drink without spilling it that you also can no longer hold a job. Not that I'm making excuses, but it just seems that once you slide so far down into your alcoholic oblivion after so many years, you are so entrenched that it seems the only answer is another drink.
My life, condensed and frozen on the walls of my brain, could not be papered over. Scrape bottom, seek help, change. Of course, that's not how I hallucinated it at the time.

My emotions were addicted to alcohol. Every emotion stuck, stuffed, twisted and blown out of proportion. Luckily, under the influence, I never had a gun. I wouldn't have refused one at times, I guess. A powder keg. A powder head. Coked up, luded up, juiced up, stewing on my own stupored juices. Loose cannon. Emotions addicted. OMG, OCD, M-O-U-S-E.

"Humor is just another defense against the universe."- Mel Brooks

Where do you turn when '"More" is too much, too empty, too lost?
 
from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 44)

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