The Continual Condition Quotes

“now it’s computers and more computers
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will have computers
and everybody will know everything
about everybody else
long before they meet them.
nobody will want to meet anybody
else ever again
and everybody will be
a recluse
like I am now.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems

“when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming
the village idiot.
I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the
happy idiot
able to get food easily
...and easy sympathy,
a planned confusion of not too much love or effort.

some would claim that I have succeeded.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems

“the knife cuts into the
sun.
the plate
breaks.
the cat yawns.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems

“The Gays have not only come out of the closet, but they have managed somehow to put us into it.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems

“I have consumed more drink than the first
one hundred men you will pass
on the street
or meet in the madhouse.
I scratch my belly and dream of the
albatross.
I have joined the great drunks of
the centuries:
Li Po, Toulouse-Lautrec, Crane, Faulkner.
I have been selected
but by whom?”
― Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems

“now it’s computers and more computers
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will have computers
and everybody will know everything
about everybody else
long before they meet them.
nobody will want to meet anybody
else ever again
and everybody will be
a recluse
like I am now”
― Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems