bukowski's poetry describes life at a level most will not have experienced living in the empire; 

 

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it’s happening to them.”
— Charles Bukowski

“Do you hate people?”

“I don’t hate them…I just feel better when they’re not around.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

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