~Bukowksi on Whitman

Tempus Fugit

“when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”
I know what he
meant
I know what he
wanted:

to be completely alive every moment
in spite of the inevitable.

we can’t cheat death but we can make it
work so hard
that when it does take
us

it will have known a victory just as
perfect as
ours”

~ Charles Bukowski

~Tempus Fugit

rose

“They are not long,
the days of wine and roses.
Out of a misty dream,
our path emerges for a while,
then closes,
within a dream.” 
~ Ernest Dowson
The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
Wishing you all the very best of weekends!