“It's true:
pain and suffering
helps to create
what we call
art.
given the choice
I'd never choose
this damned
pain
and suffering
for myself
but somehow it finds
me
as the royalties
continue to
roll on
in.”
More from Charles Bukowski
“I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons but there…”
“It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.”
“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
“'Have you ever been in love?' 'Love is for real people.'”