We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that itβs cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much itβs cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes β¨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.475, Canongate Books
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