The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

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How I cope with my Monday: I watch

Tom Waits reading Bukowski

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The Laughing Heart

Charles Bukowski

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.

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