Nervous

My heart races
Skips a beat
I trip over
A tangle
Of confused feet

My breath catches
In my throat
Stuck there
Making me choke

The snakes
Squirming inside
My tummy
Bite me
Puncturing my sanity
Dragging gasps
From my dry mouth

I look down
Through drunken-sober eyes
At shaking hands
And casually pass out.