JUNK SICK

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, September 11, 2020

A GENTLE SLIDE INTO A CONCRETE MIXER

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For Jack M. Scuffeed-up with the blood of the ones who slid before us, we bled into the eighth grade on those endless summer days ...

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Sunday, September 6, 2020

I'M GETTING USED TO DYING

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in increments; how the very air you breathe in, ushers yourself out. Understanding this is not easy; yet accepting and playing with ...

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Friday, September 4, 2020

BLACK BELLS

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singing like any other religious body swaying to a wind's rhythm, hints at a cancer from God. A jubilee we'll have across the ...

Saturday, August 8, 2020

FAMILY SUCKS

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you in. Try as you might to resist the lure already the hook is stuck between gums and teeth while you flop and strain against l...

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

THE ADDITION OF SUBTRACTION

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Each day adds to your diminution of the life (of your life!) outside of you. It's nothing to get hung up about; it's just f...

Sunday, August 2, 2020

A SUNDAY SERMON FOR THE BROKE & BROKEN; FOR THOSE AT WAR

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with themselves... Like those who seek the lash and the balm; who have never looked into a mirror that was friendly; who have the pos...

Thursday, July 30, 2020

SWEETENED BY LIES

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memory fattens the spinal cord where six plays with sixty as if they were friends; as if they could be anything more than taunts down w...

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Savage: I've recently published my memoir, JUNK SICK: CONFESSIONS OF AN UNCONTROLLED DIABETIC, on Smashwords. The link to that and an accompanying interview can be gotten to at: http://smashwords.com/books/view/715

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