People Aren't Good (The Crunch) (Charles Bukowski)

Too much too little well not enough to fight too thin or nobody laughter or tears or immaculate haters lovers non-consumer an old guy in a cheap room with a photograph of Marilyn Monroe many old guys in cheap rooms without any photographs at all there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movements of the hands of a clock there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in blinking neon signs in Vegas in Baltimore in Munich there are people so tired so straight that buying a bargain can of tuna in a supermarket was the greatest moment their greatest victory we don't need new government's new revolutions we don't need new men you willin we don't need new ways good Colombian coke bill those watches that give you the date people are not good to each other one on one marks be damned the sin is not the totality of certain systems Christianity be damned the sin is not the killing of a garden people are just not good to each other we are afraid we think that hatred means strength what we need is less brilliance what we need is less instruction what we need are less birds what we need are less Bukowski what we need is like this or finches we don't think about the terror of one person taking in one place hello untouched unspoken to watering the blood being without a teleport that will never ring because there isn't one more haters than lovers slices of do like taffeta people are not good to each other people are not good to each other people are not good to each other and beads swing in the clouds love and the dogs piss upon the roses and the killaby heads the child like taking a bite out of an ice cream cone and the ocean comes in and out in and out under the direction of a senseless move and people are not good to each other you