Waking up this morning, and thinking about drink, I realized that I was alone, sober, and not sure that drink was in me anymore. I questioned my drinkeness and thought for a moment that "I was drink", not "I am drink".
I quickly had a cup of coffee and the feeling went away.
I see that you're not going with a pseudonym. Brave. Nice to share the world of drink with you.
ReplyDeleteSo the coffee did the trick huh? Interesting. But that may contradict our theory here. I don't think that your drink suddenly disappeared from inside of you. Perhaps it was blocked or chose to play hard to get - like our respective muses. Have you ever had writer's block for instance? - Couldn't write for days, then boom! - the drink was back. Now I also have the theory that real drink brings out the drink and that usually entails drinking alcohol. But maybe coffee can work. Coffee can in fact be a very desirable drink - especially in the morning. Coffee sure beats alcohol in the morning - unless of course one has a drinking problem - which we of course don't.
ReplyDeleteSo, tell me Paul, when you had your coffee this morning, did the leaves of Haliburton seem more aflame, the lake more black and alluring, your wife more... whoops sorry, I go too far. You know what I mean. Did you feel like Hemingway who once said: "His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred."