Two more hours.Twenty-two down,two to go. How longcan one day be?An eternity.A thirty day chip.How’d that happen?Twenty-four hoursat a time. Seven hundredtwenty long hours.Thirty days, sixty,ninety, six monthsthen nine. A yearI’m clean! A bumpyride but worth it.Hard to recall the […]
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Hanging on the Hyphen
I came defeated, demoralized, victimized by my addiction. Powerless over my lover cum stalker, unmanageable an incongruous understatement, Step One stood a rock-solid given. Sure, I’d toss that to any power, higher, lower, alien, hostile. Take it, please! Take the […]
Continue reading »The Glass Ceiling
In recovery the ceiling has nothing to do with race gender ethnicity In recovery it’s up to you but try as you may you can’t break through In recovery the ceiling’s named so all have heard fourth dimension of existence In recovery it’s found unexpectedly accidentally when least expected In recovery surrender’s never […]
Continue reading »Running the Table
Desperation dragged me here — like hope a lottery ticket will pay the rent. Lacking better plans, this at least was free unlike the hoped-on buck. Warm smiles, firm handshakes, shocking proof of elevated status (above pariahs,) even hugs despite my lacking cleanliness– I hung around, nice folk, […]
Continue reading »Inside My Outside
Aging on the inside giving up on dreams petrified cynic comprehend serenity? we will know peace? you’re believing in fairies dancing strange roads self-pity will disappear? gain interest in others? dreams are drivel, childish when I became grown I put […]
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