Kat Man

“invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you. reinvigorate”
― Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“she died of alcoholism
wrapped in a blanket
on a deck chair
on an ocean
steamer.

all her books of
terrified loneliness

all her books about
the cruelty
of loveless love

were all that was left
of her

as the strolling vacationer
discovered her body

notified the captain

and she was quickly dispatched
to somewhere else
on the ship

as everything
continued just
as
she had written it.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned

“people who believe in politics are like people who believe in god: they are sucking wind through bent straws. there”
― Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“I get the blues for him, for me, for all of us: for want of something to do we keep slaying our small dragons as the big one waits.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993