Regurgitation

The face in the reflection

Opens its mouth to laugh

Only to be swallowed

 

By

A jaw clenched tight

Stressing the muscles

Increasing pressure

On the grating teeth

Squeezing the eyes closed

Forcing tears to spring up

 

Until

A screaming face swallows

That one of agony

Yellowed teeth displayed

In a feral manner

Mouth pulled wide

Spraying spittle at the

Back of the reflection

 

Only

To be swallowed

By a face sobbing

The head slowly

Drops into a pair of hands

Hiding the face

Showing only

The tears streaming

From in between the fingers

Running down the wrists

Shuddering in its own

Self pity

 

Then

Just as the illusion seemed

To be too much for the owner

His reflection

Regurgitated

 

The hands parted

Eyes still coated in tears

To open the mouth

Releasing the screaming

Edifice

With yellow teeth pulled wide

Spitting up the he agonized

Features

Eyes closed to the world

 

And as its eyes opened

So did the mouth

Only to release a face laughing

 

Hysterically

At the world he did not occupy

At the owner because he can’t seem to grasp

Why this momentary hallucination took place

 

But in the end

He opened the cabinet

Housing the mirror

Shook two aspirin out of the plastic bottle

And closed the mirror to look at his hung over visage

05/16/2012

Author's Note

0719 am

Reviews

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Wow! The horror of a hangover described absolutely brilliantly. Life without aspirin could be quite a nightmare. Superbly written and expressed.