Thoughts about alcohol Teil des Episodenwerkes: A Drinker's Diary

  - Einleitung
  - Kapitel 1: Thoughts with alcohol
  - Kapitel 2: Thoughts about alcohol
  - Kapitel 3: Thoughts about alcohol
  - Kapitel 4: Thoughts with alcohol
  - Kapitel 5: Thoughts with and about alcohol
  - Kapitel 6: Thoughts with alcohol
  - Kapitel 7: Thoughts about alcohol
  - Kapitel 8: Thoughts with alcohol
  - Kapitel 9: Thoughts about alcohol
  - Kapitel 10: Thoughts about alcohol
  - Kapitel 11: Thoughts about alcohol
  - Kapitel 12: Thoughts with alcohol
  - Kapitel 13: Deterioration
  - Kapitel 14: Gedanken mit John an meiner Seite.


I’m sitting here:
Thinking of This and That, yet mainly I’m waiting for six o’ clock.
We have come to an agreement about six o’ clock, my friend and I.
There were times when the relationship between us was more open, when
We joined each other earlier in the day, sometimes already for lunch.
But now, after a couple years of times between the clouds, I have decided to become more realistic.
What made our friendship so extraordinarily well going, was I giving a lot to him.
I told him of my youth, the special childhood moments, and all the things I ever dreamed for.
Then he became a grown man and started introducing me to men’s rituals and the way of teenagers.
Many a night we sat together in a bar or a club, debating, playing cards and looking at the girls.
Yet, even though we shared all these times, now the memories begin to fade and to fly away,
Like old, left over husks from the millstone.
A certain emptiness has come between us, but still we have managed to arrange an almost daily meeting in the evening.
The time is here, once again we will talk about the day and the few remembered days in the past, once again he will make me show a faint, happy or cynical smile.
Don’t tell him that I had these thoughts about our relationship, he may only be offended.
The time is here, a few steps to the kitchen and another secret meeting is about to start!
With practiced hands I grab the beautifully crafted glass, fill it from the bottle, which I have prepared hours ago only for this moment, bring it to my mouth, swallow and say “hello”.