“Listen to me: If I set you free
From custody today, promise me
You’ll never drink and drive again;
And also obstain from alcohol during
Your year of probation?” I promised,
And never drank again since 1986.
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That ended a ten year bout with the bottle
Full throttle, during which I was sober a year
Followed by two six month stretches clear.
AA was the only place to go to treat your self
If you had no health insurance or wealth;
And I jumped in like a drowning man grabs a rope.
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Listen to me when I tell you alcohol is the worst
Drug our society has to offer, and is the first
Offered to children or teenagers cursed
To be a second or third generation lost to
The bottle. I went to two or three meetings
A day including a marathon meetings spree
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On holidays. After a dozen years of listening
I felt the need to speak out against the boring
Endless talk of drinking days and orthodoxy
About the worshipping of the Big Book brings.
I was booed and made an outcast until a few
Understood my message that was brand new!
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Every religion must have it’s few heretics
To make sure there is a voice against fanatics.
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Uncle Larry Songs and Poems 