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.
Monday, July 31, 2017
IT IS EASY
to make mistakes.
Look
at my life
and yours;
what we see
and never saw,
what math
cannot hope
to compute.
What is obvious
is this:
we are supposed
to get it wrong.
How else
can we go on?
It is why
I fell in love
with books
& ideas.
Never having
any idea
of its meaning.
Never understanding
how many lies
we have
inside us.
What luck
I had
falling
over myself.
What luck
in finding
those at
the 8th Street Bookstore
who were making
the same mistakes
and teaching me
this eager
listener.
Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2017
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