HERE'S YOUR HEART, HERE'S YOUR HEAD--WHICH IS WHICH, & WHERE & WHEN?

For Dr.'s C.J. & T.N.


Today,
I had a busy calendar;
there are holes
and blockages
in both my head & heart.
Each resists
too much information
or love. They are hard
to get through to.
My shrink
and my heart doc
are confused
as to which organ
is worse
and fight
over territory
hard won
or lost.
Me? I take
the easy way out:
I just pay
and pay
and pay.

Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2019

RESISTANCE

I've been trying
to write a poem
about the love
of my life
for days now.
The page,
my fingers,
my brain,
says: FUCK YOU.

(Hey,
that works;
that's
the poem...

Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2016