Would there be a need for a new kind of AA,
for Analytical Anonymous? Populating it
would be a breeze, for it seems many folk
in rooms of recovery might admit to membership.
I’ve tried to analyze why I eat, why I fail to diet,
why enough food to make me sick is not enough still…
I’ve sought to scrutinize the way the steps work,
how it fits together. But that’s me, stuck in my head,
drowning in my addiction, in my ineptness,
in being powerless… But analysis, identifying causes,
explaining the problems — unimportant!

Investigation means nothing. It’s just the simple truth…
the steps work! And simply accepting the steps,
calmly doing them, that’s all it takes to stop the chaos,
to arrest the illness, to begin to become free and sane.