"in the most decent sometimes sun there is the softsmoke feeling from urns and the canned sound of old battleplanes and if you go inside and run your f...

Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.
~ Charles Bukowski ~












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