and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing i…

Charles Bukowski
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and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting? ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.191, Canongate Books
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