What We Think We Can Get Away With

We will no longer simply do what we feel like doing or what we think we can get away with. Instead, we will earnestly seek to learn God’s will for us, then we will act accordingly. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, p. 24

What I can get by with...
I can eat in the car,
ditch the wrappers
before getting home
and get away with it
if only a few times
if day doesn't follow day.
I can lie and make you believe
smoothly, convincingly.
I can remember what I read,
recite it pretty darned well,
convince you I read more often
than true the literature,
Big Book or Bigger Big Book.
I can talk the talk,
convince you I walk the walk...
or
I
can
recover.