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.
Friday, July 31, 2015
SHOVELING SHIT AGAINST THE TIDE
There's something wrong
with me--of that
I have no doubt.
Still,
it's come
as revelation
that's really
rather commonsensical;
something
I'd sooner
not have
admitted.
One day
I woke up
& realized
my shit
stinks
to high heaven.
Now,
I can no longer pretend
why
angels weep
& the gods
turn
away--not
from disgust,
only
preservation.
Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2015
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