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    Come On In!

    By Charles Bukowski

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    another comeback

    climbing back up out of the ooze, out of
    the thick black tar,
    rising up again, a modern
    Lazarus.
    you're amazed at your good
    fortune.
    somehow you've had more
    than your share of second
    chances.
    hell, accept it.
    what you have, you have.
    you walk and look in the bathroom
    mirror
    at an idiot's smile.
    you know your luck.
    some go down and never climb back up.
    something is being kind to you.
    you turn from the mirror and walk into the
    world.
    you find a chair, sit down, light a cigar.
    back from a thousand wars
    you look out from an open door into the silent
    night.
    Sibelius plays on the radio.
    nothing has been lost or destroyed.
    you blow smoke into the night,
    tug at your right
    ear.
    baby, right now, you've got it
    all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 24, 2009
    ISBN9780061855825
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    Come On In!
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    Charles Bukowski

    Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.

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