hungover
Rebecca Tang
“Why do I drink? I drink to forget the shame of drinking.”
– Antoine Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
i crack
open an
eye and
wat ch
the blur
ring lines swim in
my peripheral fishbowl
sight indulging a dry tongue
with tastes too much to take in
as i curl my toes on the one-night
bed stand for i am filled with sad
ness regret shame full stupor and i
need to stop waking up like this
arms hungover the edge
eyes sp ill ingover you half empty
your emptiness flooding half a heart
with so much too much
to count a yellow bright headache
insilentspace where t(I)me lost you
Rebecca Tang is a fourth-year English major, minoring in French and society and genetics. She has been writing poems since the age of 14, drawing inspiration from Romantic poets like Wordsworth and Keats, as well as from female poets like Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Besides poetry, many of her other hobbies include baking, blogging, and 3-D origami.