Cancer Poem by Michael Walker

Cancer

nulle part et demi
seul
dans la tour croulante
de moi-meme




en trebuchant a
cette heure
le plus noir

le dernier jeu a ete
perdu

comme j'atteinds
a

le silence
d'os.


-'cancer'. Charles Bukowski. (1920-1994) .

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Born in Germany, Bukowski lived mos of his life in Los Angeles, where he became a successful, prolific novelist and poet. He died of cancer, which this poem is about-a very sick man who has lost his last gamble in the crumbling tower of himself. He felt very lonely.
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