182 . be alone - Charles Bukowski

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when you think about how often

it all goes wrong

again and again

you begin to look at the walls

and yearn to stay inside

because the streets are the

same old movie

and the heroes all end up like

old movie heroes:

fat ass, fat face and the brain

of a lizard.

.

it's no wonder that

a wise man will

climb a 10,000 foot mountain

and sit there waiting

living off of berry bush leaves

rather than bet it all on two dimpled knees

that surely won't last a lifetime

and 2 times out of 3

won't remain even for one long night.

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mountains are hard to climb.

thus the walls are your friends.

learn your walls.

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what they have given us out there

in the streets

is something that even children

get tired of.

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stay within your walls.

they are the truest love.

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build where few others build.

it's the last way left.