Simply Sober

   It's alright to be empty, feel empty. It's alright to draw a blank. It's alright to feel this and not to feel that. It's alright to feel... nothing. There is this nothing sober and there is that nothing drunk. I will be okay. I will be okay. I am sober today.


   This Chapter is empty. My mind is now empty. And I will allow myself. I am simply, simply sober today.


   And that is that.



from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 37)