HIT & MISS

A lot of words--
over fifty years worth
of putting one word
next to another
--was bad
writing.
Either I was too young,
or too drunk,
or too drug addled,
or too stupid,
to do a better job; but
some of it
hit the mark.

All of it,
however,
was wasted.

And only some of you
will understand
that.

Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2013