my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a…

Charles Bukowski
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my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile? and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.15, Canongate Books
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