The Genius of the Crowd

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Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski ( boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈkaʁl buˈkɔfski]; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column Notes of a Dirty Old Man in the LA underground newspaper Open City.Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. He wrote thousands of poems, hundred… more »

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There is enough treachery, hatred, violence
Absurdity in the average human being
To supply any given army on any given day
AND The Best At Murder Are Those
Who Preach Against It
And The Best At Hate Are Those
Who Preach LOVE and the best at war
-finally -are those who preach pEACE
Those Who Preach GOD nEED God
Those Who Preach PEACE do Not Have Peace
Those who preach love do not have love
Beware the preachers beware The Knowers

Beware those Who
Are ALWAYS rEADING
BOOKS

Beware Those Who Either Detest
Poverty Or Are Proud Of It

BEWARE Those Quick To Praise
For They Need PRAISE In Return

BEWARE Those Who Are Quick To Censure:
They Are Afraid Of What They Do not Know

Beware Those Who Seek Constant
Crowds They Are Nothing alone
Beware the Average Man
The Average Woman bEWARE Their Love

Their Love Is Average, Seeks average
But There Is Genius In Their Hatred
There Is Enough Genius In Their
Hatred To Kill You, To Kill anybody

Not Wanting Solitude
Not Understanding Solitude
They Will Attempt To Destroy anything
That Differs from Their Own

Not Being Able to Create Art
They Will Not understand Art

They Will Consider Their Failure as Creators
Only As A Failure of The World
Not Being Able To Love Fully
They Will BELIEVE Your Love incomplete
And then they will hate yOU

And Their Hatred Will Be Perfect

Like A Shining Diamond like A Knife
Like A Mountain lIKE A TIGER
LIKE Hemlock

Their Finest aRT

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