Oh God!
**** me!
Why do I never learn?

2:30 in the wee hours,
I am sure sales ended at 2:00.
Oh God!
I need a drink!

I yank open, slam closed
Refrigerator drawers.
I search the closet,
Maybe beneath the towels.


Just a glass of wine
With lunch
I told self.
Now the box lies
Empty, flattened
In my recycling bin.
I open every cabinet,
The frig yet again.
Nothing!
Oh God!
I need a drink!

How much have I
Metabolized?
What proof my blood?
How bad will it get?

6:00am sales resume….
I think.
I can’t go buy alcohol
At 6:00 in the morning.
I’ll be alone in the store.

Can I make it to 10:00?
How bad will it get?
Maybe breakfast at Claire’s,
****** Mary’s.

If only I could sleep!
3am. Wide awake.
**** me!
Oh God!
I need a drink!