Slaughterhouse Zero, or: Smashing Pumpkins go Vonnegut

A note from the year 2000: This story needs an explanation. So many people have asked just what is with this story...and I'm sure more have thought it. So I'll explain. This story is not really funny. 
Basically, this story is the story of the Smashing Pumpkins told in the style of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five. Hence the constant repetition of the phrase "so it goes." I had to read Slaughterhouse Five for school, and the main character's name is Billy Pilgrim. From that moment on I kept replacing "Pilgrim" with "Corgan," even once in an essay...my teacher was confused. And so this story was born... SLAUGHTERHOUSE ZERO or TIME IS NEVER TIME AT ALL THIS IS A STORY SOMEWHAT IN THE TELEGRAPHIC SCHIZOPHRENIC MANNER OF SONGS  BY THE SMASHING PUMPKINS  WHERE THE MUSIC COMES FROM.  LOVE.  welcome to nowhere fast  nothing here ever lasts  nothing but memories  of what never was  All this happened, more or less. The music parts, anyway, are pretty much true. Their keyboardist did die in 1996, and their drummer was scapegoated, are swore to kill Billy. And so on. 
When he decided to write this story Billy went back to Chicago, and met up with his old guitarist. They decided to catch up, relive the good old days. James invited him over. James still wasn’t married. He lived with Bugg after all these years. Bugg was pretty much his life, and when Billy came Bugg decided Billy was the one that had taken James away from him for ten years, and told him so. James knew that he and Bugg had been torn apart by fame during the nineties, but knew Bugg would understand. After all, Bugg was a very perceptive dog. 
Billy, however, felt terrible. He promised Bugg he wouldn’t let this book glamourize his days as a rock star. And he kept his promise. It’s all here; hair loss, drug overdoses, criticism and all. And Bugg forgives Billy. 
So this story is a failure. Billy looked back, at the glory days. He wanted D’Arcy and James beside him, but it would never be. It had to be a failure. Believe in me.  It begins like this: