In This Place
Charles Bukowski
1920 to 1994
Track 1
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there are the dead, the deadly and the dying.
is the cross, the builders of the cross and
burners of the
cross.
the pattern of my life like a cheap shadow
on the wall before me.
my love
what is left of it
now must
to wherever it can crawl.
the strongest know that is
final
and the happiest are those gifted the
shortest journey.
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