“they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
they were simply not
crazy enough
in the head
to sit down to a
typer
and let the words bang
out.
they didn’t want to
write
they wanted to
succeed at
writing.”
[from The Last Night of the Earth Poems 
by Charles Bukowski]
Word Florilegium 
it’s a curse… like drugs. only blessing you meet a better type of crazee
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I so wanted to send you a quote from roach hotel, after i heard b. himself reading it, via video, from the ’70s, at bellevue, not so far away from where i was, then, or sometimes am, now. but i figured you’d had it up to here with roaches and motels and memories and near misses.
it will remind me of you because i didn’t
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