He\u2019d always been a solid guy,
Great wife and kids, career and friends.
Thus we had scant idea why
Sobriety came to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His forebears had this problem long,
And therein maybe lies a clue,
But we assumed that he was strong
Enough such evil to eschew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He seemed OK with all just fine,
And only more good days ahead,
But hidden demons can malign,
Drunk, in an ambulance he sped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At hospital emergency
An angel knew him, called his wife,
Broke every rule there must be
But very likely saved his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Released, resolved he to get well,
And lift himself from the abyss.
With so much good on which to dwell
No daily AA meetings missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through love of family most of all,
Accepting what had been his fate,
He, resurrected from the fall,
Found heightened wisdom on his plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Antipathy and anger gone,
For negatives he has no space.
To happiness now where he\u2019s drawn,
A better man in that great place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He\u2019d always been a solid guy,Great wife and kids, career and friends.Thus we had scant idea whySobriety came to an end. His forebears had this problem long,And therein maybe lies a clue,But we assumed that he was strongEnough such evil to eschew. He seemed OK with all just fine,And only more good days ahead,But hidden … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-F0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Mr. Winick recently began writing poetry at nearly age 65, after concluding a long career as an attorney. Langston Hughes and Dorothy Parker are his primary poetic inspirations.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"