when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used…

Charles Bukowski
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when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2009). The Continual Condition: Poems, p.4, Harper Collins
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