January 20th, America woke up with a hangover of
biblical proportions.
Which is to be expected after
a four year bender of
authoritarianism
science denial
and general cruelty.
Now, after chugging a Monster-sized
drink of reality,
we're looking at the mayhem
we sowed in our orgy
of drunken debauchery and thinking,
"Oh God, I didn't really do all that, did I?"
"Yeah, you did," our friends and neighbors
tell us. "All that
and more."
Ugh, we know we're not
a fun drunk
but we never thought
we were a mean one.
Maybe we aren't. What if we're just the kind
who does whatever the fuck we want without
considering the consequences?
But now, the fun's over and it's time
to start adulting again:
gathering up all the empties
and tracking down where we left our car
and figuring out just who we offended
in our drunken revelry
(we're not sure but we may have wanted to hang Mike)
because we need some idea of where to start
making amends.
It goes without saying we're never going
to do this again. We know we were
incredibly lucky and dodged
a major bullet this time.
But it also goes without saying that we're
kind of lazy and no one's sure
not even us
if we're really willing to put in
the necessary work to keep it from
happening again.
It doesn't help that we're not great
at keeping our more destructive impulses at bay.
A quick look at our past history
tells us that. We try
so hard
to do the right thing
but always manage
to fuck it up somehow.
Not this time, we tell ourselves. This time,
we're going to stick to our guns
even though we know
we have
the attention span
of a coked-up hamster.
I mean, we'll try. Oh god, how we'll try. But, like every other drunk
who's had a close call, we'll forget how
bad we felt the morning after
the last time and we'll keep
bellying up to the bar
until our near misses
stop missing and we wake up to
swastikas and St. Andrew's crosses
every fucking where.
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Published by ParkerMencken
Retired firefighter, part time student, full time curmudgeon. I will suffer fools but not gladly.
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