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Slouching Toward Nirvana - New Poems - cover

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Slouching Toward Nirvana - New Poems

Charles Bukowski

Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Summary

in this place 
 there are the dead, the deadly and the dying. 
 there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of the 
 cross. 
 the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadow 
 on the wall before me. 
 my love 
 what is left of it 
 now must crawl 
 to wherever it can crawl. 
 the strongest know that death is  
 final 
 and the happiest are those gifted with the 
 shortest journey.
Available since: 10/06/2010.

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