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Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
Charles Bukowski

An American poet reflects on the alienation, frustration, and resentment of men trapped by societal dictates and conventions

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“I am too sick to lay down
the sidewalks frighten me
the whole damned city frightens me,
what I will become
what I have become
frightens me.”

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“and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it”

Charles Bukowski book Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

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