Nov 7 2004

Bukowski, One Day Late

preparation

you've got to burn
straight up and down
and then maybe sideways
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 drink a river of booze
you've got to starve
like a winter
alleycat,
you've got 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


- written by Charles Bukowski, taken from his book Bone Palace Ballet




I welcomed my 100,000th visitor to this site today. Also, according to Amazon, I've enticed people to buy two Bukowski books, one Bob Dylan CD, one David Cross DVD and two copies of the Bill Hicks DVD (which I spent the day watching). Are you people happy with your purchases? Speak up!

PS - All I want for Xmas is this. Hint hint.

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Comments

Posted by: Uncle Grambo at November 8, 2004 6:27 PM