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.
Saturday, July 23, 2016
FOR THE GODS' SAKE
stay a mystery.
Let me do
with you
what I want.
Keep
your secrets
& keep
your stains.
Keep
whatever is old
new, unknowable.
Once you tell me,
even in the bluest whispers,
it's twisted
by the very air
pushing against
our skin.
Instead,
I will watch
that which moves
without thought
or motive;
I will know you
by your absence.
Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2016
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