It Was The Alcohol

YouTube video of author Charles Bukowski abusing his live-in girlfriend.

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The mad genius
Fueled by the booze
Like always

We watch as predators
Waiting
Waiting
For the explosion

Poor wretches
Both of them
I don't want to live like that
Though remember when I did

Only for me
There was no one listening
No one I could kick
They weren't there
Only in my head
In delicious fantasies

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He was a beautiful, tortured soul
Who should not have drank
So much
But Hank believed the drunks
Were his inspiration

Poor man
I do not want that alcoholic life
Only to write