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, June 29, 2016
COMING
into that last hour
of the week,
rounding third,
heading for home,
is a beautiful thing.
You've made it
thru another week
of danger
to yourself
& others.
You haven't gotten killed
or killed the others
that you wanted to;
you've accomplished shit--
good & bad
--without wounding
or getting wounded.
Life has taught
you nothing
except
survival
& that,
my friends,
is triumph
enough.
Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2016
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