Then I’ve had people say, “Why do you go to the racetrack? Why do you drink? This is destruction.” Hell yes, it’s destruction. So was working for 17$ a week in New Orleans destruction. So were the piles of white bodies, old ankles and shinbones and shit strung through the sheets of L.A. County General Hospital . . . the dead waiting to die . . . the old sucking at the mad air with nothing but walls and silence
