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The 13th Step
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The 13th Step I finished the 12 steps Feeling real fine 90 in 90 without even wine nothing to it I say I’m clean,straight and strong I can handle the world What can go wrong Go to the club? God, I really don’t know if I should All that drinking and stuff Can’t be too good You’ll go alone? Well let me think] I can go to a bar Without having a drink It just don’t seem smart When you’re dating a hunk To let him out alone Just to get drunk So off to the club Me looking sweet and cool Him wearing those pants God I almost drool We sit at a table I order a coke Take out my Salems And light up a smoke He’s flirting with the waitress While ordering his drink She seems to know him My heart starts to sink She asks where he’d been What he was up to She ignored my completely The way women do When she walked away I gave him that look And knowing my baby That’s all it took Don’t even start, he said With a growl And 2 hours later I threw in the towel I watched from my table While he played the room Showing me he could do as he pleases And do it with whom I lasted awhile Oh hell that’s I lie I grabbed that b**** waitress When she sashayed by Bring me a beer Whatever you’ve got And while you’re at it Bring me a shot Here we go again I said to myself I know this game so well Drunk tonight and sorry Then 90 more days of hell

Reviewed by June Thompson (Reader)

Reviewed on September 17, 2003

excellent...
this was just brought up the other day...
im working my way up the ladder.. 13th indeed
never was a lucky number.. I saw a bus today.. number 13 to Normal.. made me laugh

much enjoyed

Reviewed by Sue Hess

Reviewed on August 22, 2003

john bidwell, you are absolutely correct and luckily this was written from memory not from recent experience

Reviewed by La Belle Rouge (Reader)

Wow this is an impressive poem, well penned, Sue.

Reviewed by Nicole Davis Vergara (Reader)

Reviewed on August 21, 2003

Geez sounds a lil bit like me after one to many arguing with myself there in the beginning...lol. Indeed this is a great, clever crafted write!
((((Hugs))))
~Nikki~

Reviewed by Gwen Dickerson

Sue, great write! Stay kewl!

Reviewed by John Bidwell

Wow, what a ride...but too sad.
This packs a lot of powerful "Life stuff."
It just burns me up that there are so many angels out there trying to hold on to creeps.
Super write.
John

Reviewed by Leland Waldrip

Wow, Sue! You can't make this up, can you? Great write. Hope it's fiction.
Best regards,
Leland