Patrick Clarke

“THE ALIENS
from The Last Night Of The Earth Poems

you may not believe it
but there are people
who go through life with
very little
friction of distress.
they dress well, sleep well.
they are contented with
their family
life.
they are undisturbed
and often feel
very good.
and when they die
it is an easy death, usually in their
sleep.

you may not believe
it
but such people do
exist.

but i am not one of
them.
oh no, I am not one of them,
I am not even near
to being
one of
them.
but they
are there

and I am
here.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“...by a clear, honest and clever, even too-clever little book, in which I first directly encountered the back-to-front and perverse kind of genealogical hypotheses, actually the English kind, which drew me to it – with that power of attraction which everything contradictory and antithetical has.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals: Including Ecce Homo Autobiography & Nietzsche's Personal Letters

“You realize how many people there are on this earth without a
chance? Because of where and how they were
born? Because they had no education?
Because they never had anything and never have and nobody gives a fuck .
-South of No North”
― Charles Bukowski

“That there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest