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  1. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    there is moss on the wallsand the stain of thought and failure andwaiting
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  2. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    I could understand the moon leaning across a bar on skid rowand asking for a drink, but I couldn't understand anything about myself,I was murdered, I was shit, I was a tentful of dogs,I was poppies mowed down by machine-gun fireI was a hotshot wasp in a webI was less and less and still reaching forsomething, and I thought of her corny remarka night or so ago:You have wounded eyes.
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  3. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    we were in her big oakbedfacing southso much of the rest of thetimethat I memorizedeach wrinkle in thedrapesand especiallyall the cracks in theceiling.I used to play games withher with that ceiling."see those cracks upthere?""where?""look where I'm pointing...""o.k.""now, see those cracks, see the pattern? it forms and image. do you seewhat it is?""umm, umm ...""go on, what is it?""I know! It's a man on top of a woman!""wrong. it's a flamingo standingby a stream.". . . we finally got free ofone another.it's sad but it'sstandard operating procedure{I am constantly confused bythe lack of durability in humanaffairs}.I suppose the parting wasunhappymaybe even ugly.it's been 3 or 4 years nowand I wonder if sheever thinks ofme, of what I am doing?
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  4. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    sometimes there's nothing to sayaboutdeath.
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  5. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    it's colder than hell {yes} butthe blankets are thin,and the pulled-down shadesare as full of holes as love is.
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  6. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    The wisdom to quit is all we have left."
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  7. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    startling! such determination in the dull and uninspiredand the copyists.they never lose the fierce gratitudefor their uneventfulness,nor do they forget to laughat the wit of slugs;as a study in diluted sensesthey'd make any pharaohcough up his beans;in music they prefer the monotony ofdripping faucets;in love and sex they prefer each otherand therefore compound theproblem;the energy with which they propel theiruselessness{without any self-doubt}toward worthless goalsis as magnificent ascow shit.they produce novels, children, death,freeways, cities, wars, wealth, poverty, politiciansand total areas of grandiose waste;it's as if the whole world is wrapped in dirtybandages.it's best to take walks late at night.it's best to do your business only onMondays andTuesdays.it's best to sit in a small roomwith the shades downandwait.the strongest men are the fewestand the strongest women die alonetoo.
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  8. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    we only asked for leopards to guardour thinning dreams.
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  9. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    as shedrove me through the hills everything screamed inside ofme, and I kept saying as we drove along{to myself, of course}fucker, it will pass,everything passes,it's all a jokea joke on you
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  10. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    life itself is not the miracle.that pain should be so constant,that's the miracle -
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  11. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    morning night and noonthe traffic moves throughand the murder and treacheryof friends and loversand all the peoplemove through you.pain is the joy of knowingthe unkindest truththat arrives without warning.life is being alonedeath is being alone.even the fools weepmorning night and noon.
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  12. Charles Bukowski _ The People Look Like Flowers

    we had such tremendous funand much agony togetherfor some years
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