“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. people so tired mutilated either by love or no love. people just are not good to each other one on one. the rich are not good to the rich the poor … Continue reading “there is a loneliness in this world so great”
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It’s Been A Beautiful Fight
Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is. ~ Charles Bukowski
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BUK
If it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. If you’re doing it for money or fame, don’t do it. If you’re doing it because you want women … Continue reading BUK
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Style
“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.” ~ Charles Bukowski
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LOVE …
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What a joy it must be to be a truly great writer, even if it means a shotgun at the finish. ~ Buk
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Writers Are Desperate People …
Writers are desperate people, and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. ~ Buk
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OF POETRY, WHISKEY AND BUK
2 shots = happiness 3 shots = love While 4 shots will make you Bukowski or at least you think so at the bar. and 5 shots will make you a genius as you stumble towards the mic, as you mumble something incredible and all the other drunks applaud (and … Continue reading OF POETRY, WHISKEY AND BUK
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“The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.” ~ Charles Bukowski
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Selling Out The Gods…
SELLING OUT THE GODS Lizard King lunchboxes for Precocious children are coming soon To a supermarket near you. They will be next to the Jim Carroll Action figures and the “Rimbaud was a wildman” T-Shirts in isle 5. The Jack Kerouac cereal is fortified And delicious … _________________ R.M. Engelhardt 2005
R.M. ENGELHARDT 