as the spirit wanes the form appears ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pl…

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as the spirit wanes the form appears ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.105, Canongate Books
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magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.317, Canongate Books
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there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.152, Canongate Books

as the spirit wanes the form appears ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.105, Canongate Books

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