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Cause And Effect

by Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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




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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
• George Bernard Shaw


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