“My dear,
 Find what you love and let it kill you.
 Let it drain you of your all.
 Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
 Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
 For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.”
- Charles Bukowski

The Laughing Heart

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
- Charles Bukowski