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    End of a day

    This day is ashamed of itself

    and wishes to be done

    in its defense it never asked to be born
    anymore than the rest of us

    who are lost within it -
    drained and dazed in its haste

    staggering across concrete
    staring into flickering screens

    and the eventual falling apart of things
    is the only payment that arrived on time

    there is nothing left to save of it
    so I have another beer at the Kings Head pub

    and watch a woman slumped over a gin and tonic
    her gaze blank into a phone

    I walk towards the bartender for one more
    as the air fills the spaces that my body has been

    There is a quiet violence in life
    I rather like it

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    So, where is the need of Bukowsky?
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danik 2016 View Post
    So, where is the need of Bukowsky?
    do you mean, why do i need bukowski? I need him because he gives me all the questions I am looking for.
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    I see.
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Enjoyed.

    One of your lines (L13) reminded me of a lyric from Piano Man by Billy Joel: "There's an old man sitting next to me Makin' love to his tonic and gin"... your woman being more oblivious to all but her phone.

    My favorite line, albeit I find it tragic: "There is a quiet violence in life"

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    Quote Originally Posted by tailor STATELY View Post
    Enjoyed.

    One of your lines (L13) reminded me of a lyric from Piano Man by Billy Joel: "There's an old man sitting next to me Makin' love to his tonic and gin"... your woman being more oblivious to all but her phone.

    My favorite line, albeit I find it tragic: "There is a quiet violence in life"

    Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
    tailor
    Thanks! - I suppose there is tension in the banality of life. (Ok, I will not be usurping Anthony Robbins as a motivational speaker - fine by me)

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