c.b. -- to a dirty old man, to a genius poet

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to Charles Bukowski

i wake up
light a cigarette
staring at the buildings
i wondering why i got out of bed
in the first place

poetry
liquor
women

reasons appear
if you decide to keep breathing

'don't try,'
he told me,
'don't try,'
it says on his grave


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