7-UP

Ever since I met you I keep experiencing a wash of feverish and giddy that waxes and wanes over me like a tide.

I keep trying to articulate the feeling and I think I found it. When I was a child, if I got sick with the flu or something and had to stay home from school, my mom would tend to me with care. For whatever reason she thought 7-Up was great for an upset stomach, and given my reflections of those times I'm pretty sure she was correct.

She would bring me 7-Up and chicken soup or 7-Up and saltine crackers "because they would help my tummy feel better"

And I remember laying there all feverish and suddenly giggly in my teeny little human body and I would feel like everything was going to be OK.

Like despite everything I had been going through, now everything was going to be OK. I just felt warm and overwhelmingly loved.

That is totally how 7-UP makes me feel.