"GRATITUDE is when...

...what you have is enough."

-Brian Crane (Pickles Comic Strip)

Always a Bartender, Never a...

BOUNCER!

EVERYBODY needs support.

MINE is on this side of the barroom door.

Starbucks = Fuck Off

Who Knew?

I was a Bozo on THAT bus of misperceptions

"After an earthquake, the tremors can go on indefinitely."

Letting go

Letting go:


As a child, I saw a chicken get its head chopped off and its body slip out of my Uncle's hand. That chicken ran headless, down a deep slope and into the swimming pool. Blood everywhere.


My Uncle's hand let go. Letting go is hard to do.


A pool of liquor awaits me.

from All Drinking Aside, Rough Draft, Chapter 28

I've been told I have a disease of perception

and misperception.

Go! Fight! Win!

Celebrate Sobriety Instead of Gutter Pillows!

At Least the Doghouse of My Destruction

Was Completely of My Construction.

Things Aren't So Obvious

When You're Oblivious.

One Excuse is Too Many

and a Thousand should just about do it.

I did not know the shoe would drop,

the glass would break,

my heart would stop,

a soul could ache

from drinking

drinking

drinking

I Are An....

Alco-me-holic.

All That Glitters Is Not Gold

Unless it's ice cold.

Or so I've been told. Or so I'd been sold.

My Thirty Year "Milk and Cookies" Diet

Hold the cookies, Cookie

A Bottle in the Middle Turns Struggle....

...Into Scribble.