Poetry By Michael D. Petrucelli

          Scott Hart CC



Of Course I’m Guilty, I’m Catholic

There's something about AA
That's friendly to the catholic
Mindset
The idea of permanence
And indelibility
The mark that will never wash off
Purged with water and fire
The spoon and the candle
There's something about addiction
That was friendly to mine
Thinking back to Virginia
And her own
Room
I wonder if she ever knew
That she could always make one
With a needle in her
Arm
There's something about sobriety
That echoes the call of baptism
You wash away the
Sin
And you tell god
That you'll be
Good
And just like confession
Everyone knows it's another
Lie
And like confession
You can do it
Often




The Slogan

I poisoned every well,
That I had ever drank from,
To make sure,
That I could never return,
To any place I’d call home.

You asked me why,
Why did I have to run,
So god damn far,
From you and from home,
And I couldn’t say.

I wanted to say,
That every person was,
Every place was,
And every thing was,
And I didn’t know how to stop,

You complained about my music,
And hated his voice,
So I gave up listening,
To anything at all,
Because it was another thing.

I heard your voice in every song,
I always told you I did,
When you sang in your car,
And you used to think,
It was too quiet to hear.

So I turned my back on it all,
The words echoed in my head,
Recovery means leaving,
Places and things
But most of all, people.

The people at the meetings,
Told me everyone was a risk,
That people,places, things,
But I had to learn to love,
The one person who couldn’t leave.

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Michael D. Petrucelli is a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict, who to be honest isn't always the best at recovery, but is really trying his best. His dedications in life are to work, poetry, and love. His time away from those things is usually spent pushing towards social and economic justice. His writing deals heavily with addiction and how it steals your identity in every aspect. More of his writing can be found at https://michaelpetrucelli.wordpress.com/ or his unedited thoughts can be found on his twitter @comarxology.

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