Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem th…

Charles Bukowski
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Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born. ✨ Charles Bukowski, David Calonne (2013). Absence of the Hero, p.58, City Lights Books
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that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)
mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy? ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.58, Canongate Books
Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
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 s … ▶
It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.440, Canongate Books

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born. ✨ Charles Bukowski, David Calonne (2013). Absence of the Hero, p.58, City Lights Books

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