it’s still nice to be

“sometimes when everything seems at

its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and the hours, days, weeks
years
seem wasted –
stretched there upon my bed
in the dark
looking upward at the ceiling
i get what many will consider an
obnoxious thought:
it’s still nice to be
Bukowski.” ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Good ol’ Buk never seizes to amaze me. Even in the littlest of things. Like this excerpt.

If you’re wondering why grammar isn’t Chuck’s priority, some say that he just felt like his narrative “seemed” better like so. Others say the use of lower case is to emphasize a point just as well as that of the upper case.

I believe it gives it a melancholic connotation.

Forever I love you, Charles Bukowski.

MM