Bluebird

Charles Bukowski

1920 to 1994

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and the grocery clerks
you.
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
so don't be
weep, but I don't
you want to screw up the
there's a bluebird in my heart that
with our
you?
cigarette smoke
when everybody's asleep.
and we sleep together like
to let anybody see
you want to blow my book sales in
and the whores and the bartenders
die
there's a bluebird in my heart that
in there.
he's
weep, do
wants to get out
and it's nice enough to
wants to get out
stay down, do you want to mess
Europe?
then I put him back,
that
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
make a man
but he's singing a little
secret pact
there's a bluebird in my heart that
I say,
wants to get out
wants to get out
I say, I know that you're there,
in there, I haven't quite let him
at night sometimes
but I'm too tough for him,
works?
me up?
sad.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
never know that
but I'm too tough for him,