"Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created h...

How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.
~ Charles Bukowski ~












How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.
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"where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,
"Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
"I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.
"Yawn...I believe that I love sleepmuch more than anybody I’ve evermet.I have the ability to sleep for2 or 3 days andnights.I will go to bed at any giv...
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"I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
"What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
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"And it seems people should not build houses anymoreit seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floorsunder electric lightswit...
"I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow.
"people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwit...