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.
Monday, September 28, 2015
TODAY
I sold
little pieces
of my soul--
Selby, Crews,
Bukowski, Joyce,
Celine, Ginsberg,
Morrison, Roth,
Poe & Jones,
& more
before I had
to get to work
& sell a little more.
By selling them,
I've killed
a little more
of this.
I'll
come home
after work
and look,
and look
again: holes
& scars.
The addition now
is by subtraction;
I'm nearer
than further
& somewhere
there's a
balance.
Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2015
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