“It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.”
Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
Source: Selected Letters
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