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I'm not done
Excuse the profanity. 8 Count — by Charles Bukowski from my bed I watch 3 birds on a telephone wire. one flies off. then another. one is left, then it…
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on the verge of extinction
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft…
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Wrestling our demons
"Sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his…
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So little to say
I have stayed away from the world of social media save for a few posts on Instagram and a brief foray into Threads. Do I feel better for it? It’s hard…
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. . . all quiet
There was a need to write; and now . . . there is a need to rest, to stand back and drink in what is apparently happening. Life (for no one) moves…
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bim, bim, bim
I’ve shared this video before but it nicely distills Bukowski’s take on writing. I’ll leave you to watch it but I’d love to know your thoughts on the…
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(no) words
My legal stock-in-trade is words. Not a mellifluous lexicon, painting swathes of beatific, etymological sunshine but linear, arid, often bleak prose…
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an impossible job
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys…
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the subtle word
Nirvana by Charles Bukowski not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to…
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. . . [H]ow did it get like this? Thoughts, musings and wondering about the dominant narrative, which abhors limits of all kind.
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