the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been d…

Charles Bukowski
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the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.60, Canongate Books
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