I Want to Drink So Bad My Hair Hurts

For my first few months of one-day-at-a-time sobriety in AA, I suffered from a truly horrendous desire for alcohol. I didn't drink, but I had a fierce craving that never slept until I slept. One night at a meeting, sharing this desperate situation with my chums, I tried to find a form of expression that matched the enormity--the real outlandishness--of my abominable craving. And I found it.