IT IS EASY

to make mistakes.
Look
at my life
and yours;
what we see
and never saw,
what math
cannot hope
to compute.

What is obvious
is this:
we are supposed
to get it wrong.

How else
can we go on?

It is why
I fell in love
with books
& ideas.
Never having
any idea
of its meaning.
Never understanding
how many lies
we have
inside us.

What luck
I had
falling
over myself.
What luck
in finding
those at
the 8th Street Bookstore
who were making
the same mistakes
and teaching me
this eager
listener.

Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2017