My First Hangover

The room was spinning clockwise

Or counterclockwise

There was definitely a tilt

I thought, “this must be an axis of some kind”

I woke up feeling heavier than usual

Maybe from all of the alcohol

Maybe I swallowed some blankets for comfort

My hair still wet from the challenging before bed shower

I thought back to the night before

Everything seemed fine

Except for the part where I fell between the car and the curb, laying parallel to the curb, thinking

To myself, “They have forgotten me. This is where I die.”

(I didn’t die)

This wasn’t the first time I got drunk

It was probably more like the 18th time

But I decided to push this time, to see how far I could take it

But it was just a normal night

And “how far I could take it” was just “now you have to do normal every night things but they are going to be overwhelmingly difficult for you”

That morning my friends went to the hotel pool

I sat in the bathtub eating beefaroni straight from the can

Until everything faded back into the regular normal sensations