Pretty words like pretty ladies, wrinkle up and die.: Je suis responsable

A trick to dull our bleeding

Pratically speaking
the great words of great men
are not so great.

nor do great nations nor great beauties
leave anything but the residue
of reputation to be slowly
gnawed away.

nor do great wars seem so great,
nor great poems
nor first-hand legends.

even the sad deaths
are not now so sad,
and failure was nothing but a
trick
to keep us going.

and fame and love
a trick to dull our bleeding.

and as fire becomes ash and steel
becomes rust, we become
wise
and then
not so wise.

and we sit in chairs
reading old maps,
wars done, loves done, lives done,

and a child plays before us like a monkey
and we tap our pipe and yawn,
close our eyes and sleep.

Pretty words
like pretty ladies,
wrinkle up and die.

(Charles Bukowski)

Pretty words like pretty ladies, wrinkle up and die.

venerdì 18 marzo 2011

Je suis responsable

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