“I feel strangely normal.”

— Charles Bukowski

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

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American writer 1920–1994

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“she slammed the door and
was gone.

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and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn't feel
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