I realized I'd been living outside myself for so long
I'd almost become a walking vacancy.
In my prized AA sobriety, I was still running a kind of circus
which had numerous, highly believable posters plastered all over its outside
-- See the Spectacular Non-drinking Person!
Watch How Movingly He Can Recite the Twelve Steps!
-- but which had nothing much going on inside the tent.
I've been working hard to shut that circus down ever since
with varying degrees of success.
Never become so heavenly that you're no earthly good.
P R I D E = Personal Recovery Involves Deflating Ego.
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