Charles Bukowski

Betting on the Muse

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  • Roman Vlasovhas quoted8 years ago
    we were the depression kids
    and we swore we’d never be like our fathers
    or our fathers’ fathers.
    we’d break through the crap and the
    fakery.
    we knew something.
    we knew something, sitting in the dark,
    drinking and smoking.
    it was all a matter of which one of us
    got there first.
    the ends of our cigarettes glowing in the
    dark.
    as perfect as we could get.
    the laughter like knives cutting the
    stupid air.
    Los Angeles 1935
  • Roman Vlasovhas quoted8 years ago
    the illusion is that you are simply
    reading this poem.
    the reality is that this is
    more than a
    poem.
    this is a beggar’s knife.
    this is a tulip.
    this is a soldier marching
    through Madrid.
    this is you on your
    death bed.
    this is Li Po laughing
    underground.
    this is not a god-damned
    poem.
    this is a horse asleep.
    a butterfly in
    your brain.
    this is the devil’s
    circus.
    you are not reading this
    on a page.
    the page is reading
    you.
    feel it?
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