He who dies with the most time wins

A young boy was in the basement drinking beer only

Ten I think now

His parents found him there with a six pack

One down and one begun

They scolded him and sent him to a meeting

Midtown in the sky I think

They gave him a card so the secretary could sign it for each meeting he attended

He went everyday

30 sixty 90 in 90

Each day the card was signed and each week he showed it to Mom and Dad

Have you learned you lesson?

Very good they said you are doing very good

And by and by he got a year

And the group he had come to love for their stories of how they used to drink and the trouble they got into and do not have to deal with anymore and how sobriety is more important than love than his parents than school than work is the most important thing for without it he would have nothing

He clutched his card each day and dutifully had it signed they called him newcomer and treated him like a boy

And by and by he got a year and they gave him a chip with a candle and sang happy birthday and told him to keep coming back … and he did

He got a sponsor who told him he could be too smart but not too dumb so he played dumb and blew out the candle as they sang Happy birthday

The years went by and more chips

And he became sponsor and gave out chips with candles and sang and told others even older in age than him older in belly-button time than he. He told them to sit down shut up and listen and he gave them candles and then he got a 76 year chip and then he died

And his funereal was a big meeting as he was in that big meeting the sky. They read chapter 5 and each person came up and did not say goodbye but spoke of a God which they understood and they know he went to be with a God that he understood.

And he had had throughout his whole life one and 1/2 beers and yet with 76 year chip he died.  But he had hit bottom as surely as the rest of them.  He lived in the meetings.

He was the winner.

He got IT.

That is that.