She shares what she heard
someone else say last week.
She borrows her Sponsor’s
concept of God. She spouts
program sayings, initials, banalities,
knows every truism, chimes in…
repeats what she reads in the 12 & 12
to say how she works the steps.
She doesn’t have an original thought,
just does as she’s told, as people say

“this worked for me,” lives a cliché
of Recovery. You can fault her
for originality, but not
for Recovery.