From Chapter 2 of my upcoming book, ‘A Flat White; Medium, Half Sugar’. All annual paid Subs will receive a copy posted to them next month!
Sobriety (Shame creates many timelines)
Shame creates many timelines,
each starting with admittance;
new conversations with those you love
admitting old commitments.
See, for you there is a date—
marked by actions of variety;
culminating year by year
into radical sobriety.
Your calendar had fifty smiles
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