The Laughing Heart

February 6, 2006 / Filed under: Life, Poetry

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

-The Laughing Heart; Charles Bukowski

Comments/Mentions

# Häm on rye at 9/24/2006 10:13 am cst

one of the greatest beauty Buk wrote

# TrannyD¤LL™ at 4/23/2007 6:28 pm cst

Those 99 words spawned the monster in me.

# Rene at 5/8/2007 5:56 pm cst

Hey, thanks I posted a copy of this inspiration on my gBlog with a link back to you at http://reneodeay.blogspot.com/2007/05/matthom-laughing-heart.html

Found it on Babel

thanks, I needed that. René

# az at 6/14/2007 1:40 pm cst

Wonderful poem by the great man