I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.
Charles Bukowskiyou've got to burn
straight up and down
and then maybe sidewise
for a while
and have your guts
scrambled by a
bully
and the demonic
ladies,
you've got to run
along the edge of
madness
teetering,
you've got to starve
like a winter
alleycat,
you've go to live
with the imbecility
of at least a dozen
cities,
then maybe
maybe
maybe
you might know
where you are
for a tiny
blinking
moment.
don't be ashamed of
anything; I guess God meant it all
like
locks on
doors.
He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.
Charles BukowskiIf you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.
Charles BukowskiI never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
Charles BukowskiTags: bukowski
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
Charles BukowskiNo wonder Van Gogh blasted his head off. Crows and sunlight. Idle zero. Zero eating your guts like an animal inside, letting you shit and fuck and blink your eyes, but nothing, a nothing.
Charles Bukowskimaybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity.
But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't
want to.
Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.
my youth,
one time,
that time
I knew
even through the
nothingness,
it was a
celebration
of something not to
do
but only
know.
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