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Cause And Effect by Charles Bukowski

9/7/2008 6:23:09 AM

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Charles Bukowski
(1920 - 1994)

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Cause And Effect

the best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them

Charles Bukowski

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Jim Deroc (8/10/2008 12:48:00 AM)
'quite mediorce' gimme a break.buk didn't write poems for ppl like you but he's got more than a few about ppl like you... 'Lamont'
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