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Indigo the Scorpio's avatar

I start my first real job today and I’m excited and so nervous.

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Poetic Outlaws's avatar

Good luck. I hope you enjoy it!

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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

Oops, wicked bait and switch😎

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laure heinz's avatar

ooops...dyslexia or freudian slip?! posted: Bukowski takes on prisoners. meant to say: Bukowski takes no prisoners.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Nice twist!

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Michael Mohr's avatar

The cat crawling up the back: I’ve literally done that one while writing many times! Love me ole Buk. 🐈 🐈🐈

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Mr. Raven's avatar

That's for damn sure. I released 15 albums in less than 3 years, because I had to, it was a pressure built up inside me. If you think of your writing, or music, or art as "content," and your work as a "hustle," your work will never rise above the level of salami other people are hustling to sell.

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Emma Lennox's avatar

That’s good to hear on a hot day with an ill toddler and husband to look after!

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laure heinz's avatar

Bukowski takes on prisoners

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marilyn dyck's avatar

Stark brilliance!!

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Alan Marshall Clark's avatar

Right on. A great one. Absolutely true, thank god.

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQNmu1Q9NzA

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ilmOZvpOa8

Bukowski speaks about poetry and writing.

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Billy Joe's avatar

A poem from one of the first volumes of poetry of Buk's I read back in the eighties. I bought many his books after that, poetry and novels. Yes, get off the pity pot and create.

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A Saucer-full's avatar

Amen.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

“no baby” -- yeah

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Joey DeFilippis's avatar

Time and space waits for no one

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C.L. Steiner's avatar

I think space does nothing but wait.

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Marc Brimble's avatar

Space goes as soon as you get there

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C.L. Steiner's avatar

Ah - so it does wait. For anyone.

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