
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
Variant: Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
Variant: Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
“I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.”
Charles Bukowski book Hot Water Music
Source: Hot Water Music
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)
“I want so much that is not here and do not know
where to go.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.”
Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Bluebird
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
Context: there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see you.
... I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
... he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
... and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?
“so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.”
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“eleven months.
now she's gone
gone as they go.”
Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense