Living The Clean Life
Marc Swan
I finish the program
and she moves the kids a state away.
“Shit, I imagined a perfect world
when I got out.”
I ask him about Alanon.
“Too close. She said it felt too close.”
Sounds like you need another woman.
I tried. I try.
“It’s like sticking a marshmallow
in a parking meter.”
We’ve sat on some of the same stools
I say, thinking about my little girl
in New York 'the years I pissed away.
Now I ’m running the treadmill,
the money’s coming in.
I’m living the clean life
and my ex wife is somewhere else,
my kid with her in body only,
I hope. I want that spirit to soar
like mine did when I was passing through.
