alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. - Charles Bukowski
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
- Charles Bukowski
the history of melancholia includes all of us. - Charles Bukowski
the history of melancholia includes all of us.
nobody ever finds the one - Charles Bukowski
nobody ever finds the one
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it. - Charles Bukowski
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. - Charles Bukowski
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
I'm only interested in poetry. - Charles Bukowski
I'm only interested in poetry.
Don’t do it. Don’t love me. - Charles Bukowski
Don’t do it. Don’t love me.
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. - Charles Bukowski
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
I hope that death contains less than this. - Charles Bukowski
I hope that death contains less than this.
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