The tiredness rolls up from the toes before it swells and breaks around the temple. The reaction to this involves squeezing your eyes tightly shut and opening them wide in quick succession. Then, a gentle swaying of the head from port to starboard. A constriction – something like the feeling of forcing a child’s bike helmet onto your adult head – indicates a choice must be made: one must commit oneself to bed or to liquor; the lifeboat or the open seas. This particular moment will be illuminated in the fog of your recollection. It is almost always the precipice of regret.
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