I like you better when you’re not sober
It’s 3 AM, a text popped up:
“Are you awake?”
And I replied, “Drunk again?”
We chatted for 4 hours, saying words like “I missed you” and “No one understands me better than you.”
The conversation flowed like we had spoken yesterday.
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I wonder why you’re much more tolerable when you’re wasted.
I wonder why you’re more honest when you’re intoxicated.
Do we need that?
Do we need alcohol just so we can bear and be tender to each other?
I wonder if this relationship is between me and you, or your substance.
I like this 3 AM man that I’m talking to.
He’s so easy to understand, and he listens very well.
He’s the man I could love for the rest of my life.
It’s ironic that this man only shows up a few hours on Saturday —
on an unhinged day, uninvited, sometimes unexpected.
But still, I like you better when you’re not sober.
