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.
Thursday, January 7, 2016
A NOTE TO A WOMAN I ONCE KNEW
I've seen better photos
than the one I saw
yesterday of you
trying to smile
into a corporate camera
& failing
miserably.
You must have summoned
all your energy
to spar with the lens,
upturn your mouth,
& not kill yourself
afterward.
An altogether
sickening
experience
for both
of us.
But fear not!
I won't tell.
The price
has been
too high
already.
Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2016
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