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Aftersleep Books - 2005-06-20 07:00:00 | © Copyright 2004 - www.aftersleep.com () | sitemap | top |
There's some grim stuff in here. It was pretty agonizing to read about Tom's divorce. And I'm not even the one who has to live with it. Here's a quote from Tom's piece about alcoholism. (Only congenital non-alcoholics like Alan & Marilyn Bergman can safely presume to use the past tense.)
From THE WAY WE ARE: "Nor is there a cure. We can't be fixed by any surgery or pill that will let us drink or drug like ordinary humans. Even when we are getting better, the disease is getting worse. We can get a life-long remission, but once the drinking turns ugly there is no return. A pickle can't become a cucumber again."
"And I hate that part sometimes---the way they've got these tidy little bromides like that one just now, about the pickle. There's one for every possible contingency. 'Fake it till you make it' someone will say, or 'One day at a time', or 'Stay out of using places and using faces'. Give me a break. Here I am a goddam published poet who has been ignored in several countries in the Western world and translated into Serbo-Croatian and left out of several of the best anthologies and I've got to listen to rhymes like these? 'Walk the walk and talk the talk'. 'The past is history, the future's a mystery'. Or some quirky little alliterative like 'Let Go Let God'. As if we ever let go of anything without leaving claw marks in it. And God? This Higher Power business? Why can't they just settle on a name like any other bunch? Yahweh or Jehovah or Jesus or Steve?"