Comments on: Addict’s Almanac, Part II http://streetroots.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/addicts-almanac-part-ii/ For those who can't afford free speech Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:00:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dark Angel http://streetroots.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/addicts-almanac-part-ii/#comment-167 Dark Angel Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:56:20 +0000 http://streetroots.wordpress.com/?p=381#comment-167 Now, I find myself, with each new SR issue, turning immediately to this feature. Horrified, fascinated and hoping for a "happy ending" for this hero that I know can never come. Thank you, Tye, for sharing such a jugular view of your experiences. From horror, another great writer is born... Now, I find myself, with each new SR issue, turning immediately to this feature. Horrified, fascinated and hoping for a “happy ending” for this hero that I know can never come. Thank you, Tye, for sharing such a jugular view of your experiences. From horror, another great writer is born…

]]> By: Addict’s Almanac, Part III « For those who can’t afford free speech http://streetroots.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/addicts-almanac-part-ii/#comment-164 Addict’s Almanac, Part III « For those who can’t afford free speech Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:50:39 +0000 http://streetroots.wordpress.com/?p=381#comment-164 [...] Vendors ← Addict’s Almanac, Part II [...] [...] Vendors ← Addict’s Almanac, Part II [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://streetroots.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/addicts-almanac-part-ii/#comment-158 Anonymous Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:46:43 +0000 http://streetroots.wordpress.com/?p=381#comment-158 Great writing ... hang in there Wurm. Great writing … hang in there Wurm.

]]> By: rocketpoetry http://streetroots.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/addicts-almanac-part-ii/#comment-153 rocketpoetry Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:21:04 +0000 http://streetroots.wordpress.com/?p=381#comment-153 I think Tye's work is most prolific and gutsy writing Street Roots has ever featured. It's smack you upside your face real wrapped inside a great story and interesting story. Israel Bayer I think Tye’s work is most prolific and gutsy writing Street Roots has ever featured. It’s smack you upside your face real wrapped inside a great story and interesting story.

Israel Bayer

]]> By: Kevin http://streetroots.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/addicts-almanac-part-ii/#comment-152 Kevin Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:11:25 +0000 http://streetroots.wordpress.com/?p=381#comment-152 I'm sorry that I've not read your first installment here, Tye. I've never been to this blog before. I'm a recovering coke fiend who'll celebrate 20 years clean in a few days. But I did the vast bulk of my using out in semi-rural/small town western Washington County with only occasional forays into suburbia. Reading your account here was fascinating to me because so much of it was foreign to me since we used in such starkly different environments. I mean fundamentally foreign. And I suppose that it'd have been easy for me to think that we just come from different worlds and couldn't possibly relate to one another. But then I read these two sentences: "This close to scoring I am a mess. The dull ache in my bowels has become a hot twisting knife." Ah, yes. Now THAT I am only too intimately familiar with. The passing years haven't faded the primal memory of how that feels one iota. Good luck and kudos not just for laying this reality out there in the hopes that someone else can learn from it, but also for some damn fine writing too. You seriously are a good writer. I’m sorry that I’ve not read your first installment here, Tye. I’ve never been to this blog before.

I’m a recovering coke fiend who’ll celebrate 20 years clean in a few days. But I did the vast bulk of my using out in semi-rural/small town western Washington County with only occasional forays into suburbia.

Reading your account here was fascinating to me because so much of it was foreign to me since we used in such starkly different environments. I mean fundamentally foreign. And I suppose that it’d have been easy for me to think that we just come from different worlds and couldn’t possibly relate to one another. But then I read these two sentences:

“This close to scoring I am a mess. The dull ache in my bowels has become a hot twisting knife.”

Ah, yes. Now THAT I am only too intimately familiar with. The passing years haven’t faded the primal memory of how that feels one iota.

Good luck and kudos not just for laying this reality out there in the hopes that someone else can learn from it, but also for some damn fine writing too. You seriously are a good writer.

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