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.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
I FEEL YOU, BABY
trying to go
against your grain,
sanding those nasty
splinters down
and not quite managing
your heat
and not quite believing
your heart's lust
and not all together sane
and so full of fears
while you balance your love
on a moon beam
and want so badly
to be wanted
and...
do not worry
you are
and will
always
be...
but I must go,
without the hand
I want to hold;
I must make
those compromises
to buy some extra
time for
myself. Biology
is selfish
& I bend
toward
the sun.
Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2016
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