Sunday, April 16, 2017

Grace Wins

I just recieved word that this next piece will be published in Xanadu Literary Magazine with LCCC. It will be released Weds May 3.

Feb 2016
                                                   GRACE WINS
            Number of childhood memories, pleasant: 7, not very pleasant: too many.  Number of alcoholic beverages consumed: 5,462,080.  Number of consecutive days without an alcoholic beverage: 699.  Number of houses owned: 1. Number of homes I lived in: 12.  Number of times homeless: 1. Number of times married: 1. Number of children alive: 1. Number of dogs I’ve own: 4. Number of dogs I have now: 2. Numbers of cats I had: 2. Numbers of Guinee pigs I’ve owned: 1. Number of hermit crabs owned: 9. Number of childhood bunnies: 2. Number of fresh water fish I’ve owned: 24.  Number of times I wished I was dead: 44.  Number of times I am thankful to be alive: 609.  Number of miracles witnessed: still counting.  Number of rehabs as a patient: 1. Number of rehabs as a volunteer: 32.  Number of times incarcerated: 0. Number of times in jail as a volunteer: 21.  Number of times I’ve cursed God: 13.  Number of times I’ve prayed: lost track.  Number of times I stole from family: 123.  Number of times I’ve experienced a drunken black-out: 267.  Number of times in a hospital: 27.  Number of years when I consumed my first drink: 12, my first drug: 13, my first sexual encounter: 11.  Number of times I have driven drunk: can’t remember.  Number of times in college: 2. Number of awards received: 4. Number of times I cried happy tears: 999.  Number of times I’ve lost my keys: 188.  Number of times I’ve lost my glasses: 72.  Number of times I threw something against the wall: 18. Number of times I threw my hands up to the sky in surrender: 551.  Number of times I felt freedom from addiction: 699 days and counting….
                                                                                                                                               Feb 2016

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