bukowski once wrote, “we’re all going to die, all of us. what a circus! that alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. we are terrorized and flattened by life’s trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.”
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"Bu dünyada öyle büyük bir yalnızlık var ki,
onu saatin ibrelerinin ağır hareketlerinde görebilirsiniz."
Charles Bukowski,
Love Is a Dog from Hell
Charles Bukowski
"Bu dünyada öyle büyük bir yalnızlık var ki,
onu saatin ibrelerinin ağır hareketlerinde görebilirsiniz."
Love Is a Dog from Hell
"Bu dünyada öyle büyük bir yalnızlık var ki,
onu saatin ibrelerinin ağır hareketlerinde görebilirsiniz."
Charles Bukowski,
Love Is a Dog from Hell
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love
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People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective
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"It was my childhood, you see. I never knew what love was..."
"Phone me back later."
Sara hung up.
(…) My enemies are the source of half my income. They hate me so much that it becomes a subliminal love affair.
“I love you too, Sarah,” I said, “but somehow, the telling of old stories, again and again, seems to bring them closer to what they were supposed to be.”
The public is fortunate. Everything pleases them: icecream cones, rock concerts, singing, swinging, love, hate, masturbation, hot dogs, country dances, Jesus Christ, roller skating, spiritualism, capitalism, communism, circumcision, comic strips, Bob Hope, skiing, fishing murder bowling debating, anything. They don't expect much and they don't get much. They are one grand gang.
When Love becomes a command, Hatred can become a pleasure.
Freedom is being gunned down. The "right" to murder is the ultimate right in this country. Sloth is a virtue. Patriotism is a sin. Conservation is an anachronism. God is over thirty years old. To be young is the only religion — as if it were a hardwon virtue. "Decency" is dirty feet, a scorn for work. "Love" is something you need penicillin for. (...) You "love" strangers, not parents.
It is a time of groups demanding their dignity and place under the smoggy sun. Often their demands reveal their weaknesses and cruelties, but the blinkers are on and they only see straight ahead—for themselves. Groupism can be an Al Capone gang or a ballet co. Groupism can be the Catholic Church or the men’s track team at Stanford. Groupism means “win” and “win for us.” Groupism means “I want mine and by God you better give it to me or else —.” Groupism is a demand for Love through Threat. Love meaning a great many different things to different people. Groupism will not work. Groupism will only form counter groupism. Groupism, in a sense, isolates more than it frees, but let’s let all that go. Everybody’s doing it now.
How Do They Get Your Number?
the dogs of hell have claws like cats
and faces like women
and the doors of hell have numbers on
them
upside down
and to get through them
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A Little Atomic Bomb
o, just give me a little atomic bomb
not too much
just a little
enough to kill a horse in the street
but there aren’t any horses in the street
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