Brautigan Was A Drunk, But He Got This Right…
1 min readMar 26, 2017
“I am here
and you are distant.”
The essential sadness
of those words
captures the heart
of loneliness.
Here/distant:
the kernel
of so much despair
and poetry.
Written by Mike Essig
Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.