Pete Hamill Died on My Birthday
Pete Hamill Died on My Birthday
(Elegaic Musings on A Drinking Life)
“Look at
what passes for the new.
You will not find it there but in
despised poems.
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.”
— William Carlos Williams, from “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”
“We live with a callous on the heart” — Pe…