Bukowski & Me

I read Bukowski

Must be a hundred times

And it gives me hope

To know that someone else

Like me

Despised this terrible place

With its terrible people

And its terrible ways

But it gives me hope as I say

To know that someone else understood

The drink

The drugs

The women

And being alone

And being

Just fine

With that

Better to be alone

With drink

With drugs

With women

And understand why

Than to be

In terrible company

In a terrible place

With terrible people

And their terrible ways

And to be completely

And utterly

Misunderstood

Much better

To be

Alone

Like Bukowski

And me