Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Born alive Born Dead


Charles Bukowski first published “Dinosauria, We” in 1991:
We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings

Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes


Independent Tom  21 hours ago
We are not born equal, we will never be equal. You cannot redistribute attractiveness to the ugly, intelligence to the stupid, and ambition to the lazy... which, of course, makes plenty of liberals murderously angry.

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