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Poets Wanted Here
Your Newsletter Committee invites you to participate in a monthly AA Poem feature. Please submit your original poems to: sdaa.newsletter@gmail.com – 200 words or less.
Total Calls 1,421
Central Office Phone Calls and Website Hits
Meeting
General
12 Step
Daytime
792
188
42
9am-9pm
Nighttime
296
72
31
9pm-9am
Website Hits
February
Total
89,890
5,272,286
THE KNOCKDOWN
The booze has got me down again, but no way am I done!
Next time I’ll be more careful, as the referee counts ONE.
The A.A.’s said “surrender” should be the path for you.
But you know my case is different, and the man is saying TWO.
To admit that you are powerless, should be the course for thee.
Accept a Higher Power? Yuk! After all, we are only now at THREE
I’ll pull myself up by the ropes and get off this goddamn floor!
Willpower is the answer! As the man in stripes calls FOUR
You know I have been fighting this, as long as I’ve been alive.
Perhaps there is another way – as I hear the number FIVE
Time after time that booze, has put me in a fix. I’ll try an A.A. meeting, and I think there is one at SIX
You know these folks seem very nice, a happy bunch of brethren.
They are reaching out to take my hand – and I’m OK that we’re at SEVEN
I admit that doing things my way, has not turned out so great.
In fact, it got me lying here behind ball number EIGHT
I’ll ask guidance from another for the path that should be mine.
And works Steps that aren’t that scary, til we get to number NINE
I will stop fighting and embrace A.A. and as it happens when
I’ll just stay down with all my friends, as the referee counts TEN
Birthday Gratitude
Name
City/Home Group Sobriety Date Amt. Enclosed
Please mail to:
San Diego Central Office
7075-B Mission Gorge Rd
San Diego, CA 92120-2454
All birthdays submitted will be published the month following submission. Please contact the newsletter chair if a birthday has not been published for two months following submission.
Many A.A. members celebrate their birthday by sending a donation of one or two dollars for each year of sobriety to Central Office.
If you would like to carry on this tradition, please fill out the form below.
Blaine H.