Saturday 11 May 2013

Day 294: Music Matters


More wisdom and truth from Bukowski...


1813-1883 - Charles Bukowski

listening to Wagner
as outside in the dark the wind blows a cold rain the
trees wave and shake lights go
off and on the walls creak and the cats run under the
bed . . .

Wagner battles the agonies, he's emotional but
solid, he's the supreme fighter, a giant in a world of
pygmies, he takes it straight on through, he breaks
barriers
an
astonishing FORCE of sound as

everything here shakes
shivers
bends
blasts
in fierce gamble

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as
nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and
back down into the gut

some men never
die
and some men never
live

but we're all alive
tonight.

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