Monday, March 30, 2009

The Laughing Heart


your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
Charles Bukowski (1996)

1 comment:

heidi nicole said...

i like this. a lot. god if facebook never existed i never would have come to your blog to read this. and maybe write it down in my real-life journal. so i'm gonna live on N4th street for a month. you still around nolibs?