Your health
is everything
his mother
always
told him.
She was
Irish &
worked 12
hour days
in a
bakery by
the age of
14 &
died
from a
nasty one
two punch of
Alzheimer’s &
Parkinson’s.
Her parents
came to
America in
1910
looking
for a
better life.
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It’s the
lilliputians who
tie down
giants &
march their
midget
armies up
their legs.
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He was
born a
poet into
a household
of child
abuse wife
beating &
drunken rages.
He wound
up instead
making a
six digit
income
renting green
plastic portable
toilets to
construction
sites &
rock concerts
doing a
lot of
crack cocaine
& packing
a gun.
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Trim the
sails &
dump the
ballast.
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I know
this may not
set well
with some
people but
Bukowski
was a
conformist.
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