Things have come to that.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Amiri Baraka, family, Leroi Jones, psychology, suicide, unsettling
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Some People 1
some people never go crazy.
me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind the couch
for 3 or 4 days.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Charles Bukowski, dark humor, social commentary, unsettling