Happy Holiday!

Too Lazy 2 B more than Hazy

Somewhere,

Under

This

Rainbow...

Fly on Wall watches Spider on Wall

Off

The

Wall

"Lather. Rinse. Repeat."

The only thing unusual about me drinking beer in the shower was the low alcohol content. Dr. Jim (that's me) prescribed a drink in the shower for its medicinal sobering up qualities and its effervescent lilt. Beer was the Common Man's brew. Dr. Jim only drank beer in public as a way to show that he flowed with the sea of humanity (or was too drunk to drink anything else).

"Lather. Rinse. Repeat."

I thought I could follow directions. But my direction faded. I and alcohol and fear went down the drain together....

from "All Drinking Aside", Chapter 66 (rough draft)

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Homocide Homonym

Serial Killer/Cereal Killer

Nine Dolphins

Children

and

Virgins

see only

Dolphins

when looking

at this picture.

Find one

Dolphin

and you will

see them all.

Oops, found

a tenth.

'Nuff Said

My Mother's Toolbox

Then there's the fruitcake doorstop.

This

This is one of many nows, this now. This sober day. This is a day of living where sobriety is a routine, a change of habits well rehearsed, a life reversed. This is what is left when the last tremors of the earthquake have subsided. This is where the illusion of illusions has melted.

This is Page One.

from "All Drinking Aside," Chapter 70 (rough draft)
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Cool Beans

One bean,

Two beans,

Three beans,

Cool.

I am,

You are,

We are two.

Phantom Memories

I still have phantom memories of my drinking past, euphoric recall, twisted. It's as if one of my legs were amputated, but that I can still sometimes, somehow feel those toes that are not there.

Triggers are phantom toes wiggling. Don't take the bait. Don't bite. Use your good leg, the sober leg. The bad leg is gone. Let it go. Say your eulogy. Mourn this death and move on.

Addiction is a beast that lives within you. You cannot kill the beast. Denial, anger, fear will not kill it. Begging, pleading, blaming will not tame it. Depression, self-pity, doubt: They only feed it. Confront it. Accept it. The beast will never die.

from "All Drinking Aside," Chapter 65 (rough draft)
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Sesame Street/Sesame Church

Last time I went to Church, there were only 7 Commandments