I've lived a life of madness and mayhem. I’ve had diabetes for 50 years and have been addicted to one substance of another for 45 of those years. It has been a beautifully joyful and painful schizophrenic ride: drugs, booze, women, music, writing, and learning with each new success or defeat. This blog tries to come to grips with all of life's fractures and contains everything--even you.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
HELLO UKRAINE
You got plenty of trouble,
I know;
and I got plenty myself.
I'm not comparing here,
I'm just sayin.
I see where
you're reading my early stuff
& I can understand that--
it was raw, alive,
nerves on fire.
I'm happy to say
they still are (on fire)
& I still am (raw & alive),
but have taken on
much shit as I've gone on.
Better to burn,
I think,
while you can,
and leave a stain
in your wake,
then to wake up
without needing
to.
Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2014
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