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Bukowski: Poem#4 « Previous | |Next »
November 19, 2003

Be Kind


we are always asked
to understand the other person's
viewpoint
no matter how
out-dated
foolish or
obnoxious.

one is asked
to view
their total error
their life-waste
with
kindliness,
especially if they are
aged.

but age is the total of
our doing.
they have aged
badly
because they have
lived
out of focus,
they have refused to
see.

not their fault?

whose fault?
mine?

I am asked to hide
my viewpoint
from them
for fear of their
fear.

age is no crime

but the shame
of a deliberately
wasted
life

among so many
deliberately
wasted
lives

is.


Charles Bukowski

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 10:58 PM | | Comments (1)
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We are posion on this earth. We destroy everything we own we polute and polute and concieve more to polute the vicious American cycle.We crave we want we are hypocrits we are blasphimers abusers, we endulge intocicate, and fight we are violont. We do not think of the contioned exisetence of life with this there is no this and so and so on.If we were to cease all indulgences, hate, craving, rasicm,ignorance,attachment lazziness,false speach, arogance, we would find nibana. We wold be in peace we all could be as it should brother sister in harmony no war no poor no rich no rasicm the wold the earth disearse it.