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, October 20, 2016
APES, STILL--POST DEBATE POST MORTUM
How far
from the caves
& trees & forests
that history swings through;
how far
from the single cells
of slavery
& perfunctionary fucking
have we traveled
to get to
last night?
The desert's lion's head
& sand beasts,
Constantinople & catastrophes
hold little sway
over inherent cruelties
& madmen.
Once upon a time
we were apes
with clubs...now
nuclear weapons.
Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2016
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