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Some People

by Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

some people never go crazy.
me, sometimes I'll lie down behind the couch
for 3 or 4 days.
they'll find me there.
it's Cherub, they'll say, and
they pour wine down my throat
rub my chest
sprinkle me with oils.




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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top

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