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.
Friday, April 13, 2018
THE LONGER I'VE LIVED
the more I realize
I've descended
from a long & noble line
of idiots, degenerates,
the sick & maimed & mad
& misbegotten; a proud & frugal
fellowship of ne'erdowells,
neandethals, cons & crooks,
brilliantly out of step, awry,
lamposts drunk
with a foul & yellow sheen.
Those who bit down hard
on mother's tit and never managed
to spit it out
almost sure
the milk not spoiled
but magical
& necessary
(for balance?)
I'm near the end of it,
I think, clawing
at the earth
that will have no choice
but to take me back
& give me
cover.
Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2018
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