"Taking a Breather"

    Is sanity control? I know insanity is not. Thinking to myself instead of talking to myself. How can I practice what I preach if I am not preaching?

(Vatchi): His wheels are still spinning much too fast. Jim thinks that he has changed much more than he really has. I think he needs to slow his pace even more here.

 

    I am an old carnival man now. A Carnie. "He could have been good, once." "Too many spills on life's tightrope without a net." "Too many spilled drinks." "Too many stained carpets." "Too many sweat-stained armpits." "Too much blood in the gutter."

from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Day 74)