Arrested Development

Reads 81
Votes 1
Parts 1
Time <5 mins

Reads 81
Votes 1
Parts 1
Time <5 mins

December 1
    
     
    
    ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
    
     
    
     
    
    Arrested development was bad enough; the living death
    sentence it imposes is completely unacceptable. 
    My childhood ran down the hill away from the mountain of confusion that
    is life in this society.  My ability to mature
    was damaged and what I learned to do was mutate.  I could move laterally but never grow
    up.  I became the goose being grown for
    its liver.  All the honk and squawk in
    the world couldn’t change my plight.  I
    don’t have to understand how I was let out of the prison of addiction.  As long as I don’t go back I’ll never fear
    breaking out in handcuffs or getting locked in my crib.
    
     
    
     
    
    Effort is already
    made, just add your hand.
    
    *
    
     
    
    Flower Power
    
     
    
     
    
    The man with the chrysanthemum on his head
    
    walks up and down the isle.
    
    Do I look like that, I wonder to myself?
    
    Have I taken personal style to the point of caricature?
    
     
    
    What is the boundary by which
    
    the embarrassment is kept at bay?
    
    Is there a point at which I can overcome
    
    who I present myself as,
    
    and represent the best of who I can be?
    
     
    
    Who I might be if only I can manage
    
    not to get carried away by impressionism?
    
    I am given this dwelling and it suits me quite well,
    
    when I treat it as a temple and not simply as a shrine.
    
     
    
     
    
    Vlog: http://youtu.be/yHOob7gAEMQ
    
    You are reading selections from Sober on the Way to Sane
    and More Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault
    
    http://www.amazon.com/Sober-On-The-Way-Sane/dp/1440417342/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388576888&sr=8-1&keywords=sober+on+the+way+to+sane
    
    http://www.amazon.com/More-Lines-From-My-Life/dp/1448677203/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388576956&sr=8-1&keywords=More+Lines+From+My+LifeAll Rights Reserved

alanon expression flower growth hope humor poetry power recovery self step

Table of contents

~
Mon, Dec 1, 2014

December 1
    
     
    
    ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
    
     
    
     
    
    Arrested development was bad enough; the living death
    sentence it imposes is completely unacceptable. 
    My childhood ran down the hill away from the mountain of confusion that
    is life in this society.  My ability to mature
    was damaged and what I learned to do was mutate.  I could move laterally but never grow
    up.  I became the goose being grown for
    its liver.  All the honk and squawk in
    the world couldn’t change my plight.  I
    don’t have to understand how I was let out of the prison of addiction.  As long as I don’t go back I’ll never fear
    breaking out in handcuffs or getting locked in my crib.
    
     
    
     
    
    Effort is already
    made, just add your hand.
    
    *
    
     
    
    Flower Power
    
     
    
     
    
    The man with the chrysanthemum on his head
    
    walks up and down the isle.
    
    Do I look like that, I wonder to myself?
    
    Have I taken personal style to the point of caricature?
    
     
    
    What is the boundary by which
    
    the embarrassment is kept at bay?
    
    Is there a point at which I can overcome
    
    who I present myself as,
    
    and represent the best of who I can be?
    
     
    
    Who I might be if only I can manage
    
    not to get carried away by impressionism?
    
    I am given this dwelling and it suits me quite well,
    
    when I treat it as a temple and not simply as a shrine.
    
     
    
     
    
    Vlog: http://youtu.be/yHOob7gAEMQ
    
    You are reading selections from Sober on the Way to Sane
    and More Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault
    
    http://www.amazon.com/Sober-On-The-Way-Sane/dp/1440417342/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388576888&sr=8-1&keywords=sober+on+the+way+to+sane
    
    http://www.amazon.com/More-Lines-From-My-Life/dp/1448677203/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388576956&sr=8-1&keywords=More+Lines+From+My+Life

1 part