180 House

There’s no place like home

After I woke up under
the Lancaster Avenue bridge
in downtown Fort Worth Texas
on November 20 2015

I checked in to rehab
for my one and only
time through rehab

60 days later
on January 20 2016

this very lovely saint
picked me up
and drove me to
Abilene Texas

to meet her
less lovely husband saint

at the
honest and benevolent
180 House
half-way house
in Abilene Texas

which they starting operating
29 years ago
after they got clean and sober

All I had left was
the clothes on my back
an Obamaphone
a drivers license
and
a social security card

I had no money

They gave me
a place to stay
and
all the food I could cook

They told me to
go to a 12-step meeting
every day

They told me to
get a sponsor

They told me to
get a job

So that’s what I did

because I did not
want to
go back to living
under that bridge

There is no better place
than this place

to stay clean and sober

get your act together

and not die early

just as long as
you don’t mind
being around

a couple of saints
and a whole lot of
former sinners

180House.org