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To give life you must take life,
and as our grief falls flat and hollow
upon the billion-blooded sea
I pass upon serious inward-breaking shoals rimmed
with white-legged, white-bellied rotting creatures
lengthily dead and rioting against surrounding scenes.
Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow
did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be
young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh.
I hated you when it would have taken less courage
to love.
Charles Bukowski
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Deanna Hughes
(9/14/2008 12:18:00 AM) |
Charles Bukowski.
What a wonderful man you were.
This poem, nothing but truth.
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Sharon Lewis
(5/4/2006 2:17:00 PM) |
This poem struck a chord of sadness and longing. As sad as Bukowski is, we have all been there. Thankfully, not to live.
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