I, as a single-malt scotch drunk, am unlike all other drunks: the tequila drunk, the gin drunk, the beer drunk.
I am, indeed, quite special:
Rooms don’t spin wildly out of control.
Speech doesn’t fuzzy-slur.
Imagined voices don’t visit me in the night, tap me on the shoulder.
I never stumble about like a stick-figure robot with insufficient RAM.
The gills don’t go green and moldy.
Mine is a decidedly different space-time under the influence of special malt: I get hyper-focused . . . ears clutch the distinctive high-C tink of a wine glass three doors down and discern the edges surrounding a breath . . . eyes sense a warm body in inky darkness and diagnose the foul chemistry of the psychopath upon first blush . . . I taste the wispy molecules of someone’s exhalation from a hundred meters away and the subtle differences between a drop of Auchentoshan Three Wood and Glenfarclas at 40 . . . fingers go a-tingle from the distant touch of a stranger from yesterday or from the future . . . I perceive the shimmering electric field of a beautiful creature in slow delicious motion.
You might say I am cursed with a feverish awareness of . . . everything. I read all cycles, especially those in the parafrequencies where the undead communicate with the living world. Calling it a curse is too kind.
Without the constant drink, I descend into a tunnel of madness where a man’s cells melt into an ever-shrinking plug of dull, lifeless aerogel with no discernable taste or odor, color or texture.
No real mass.
I don’t simply drink to feel everything in my world.
I utterly drink to exist. . . .
[It’s fiction, stupid.]
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Tripsy South is the author of the novel SUICIDE TANGO. Trained in physics at a cool surfer university, she lives and plays in Los Angeles where she’s a freestyle writer/editor and copywriter. Ring her here.