are you desperate?

[Bukowski]

this is hard to explain, I mean who the man was,
anyhow, it was in a large structure and he sat in
a chair in uniform, red coat and all, his job was
to examine the hand-stamp of those who left the
structure and returned, there was a lamp you put
your hand under and the stamp appeared (god that
was work) anyhow, as I put my hand under the lamp
the man asked, "listen, what's your name?"
"Hank," I answered
"listen, Hank," he asked, "what makes a man a
writer?"
"well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you
get it down on paper or you jump off a
bridge.
writers are desperate people and when they stop
being desperate they stop being
writers."
"are you desperate?"
"I don't know..."
I walked on through and as I took the escalator up
I saw him sitting there, probably thinking that it was possibly
bullshit, he had wanted me to suggest some special
school, some special way, like some way to get out
of that red coat, it was not an enlightening job
like designing a bridge or batting cleanup for the
Dodgers but
he wasn't desperate enough, the desperate don't ask,
they do
and at the top of the escalator I pushed through the
glass doors and as I did, I thought, son of a bitch,
I should have asked him his name, and then I felt
bad for him and for myself but a few minutes later
I had forgotten all about him
and the other way around
and he watched more hand-stamps under the lamp
and I watched the toteboard and the horses and
the desperate people
desperate in all the wrong
ways, in-
deed.

 

[boatboatboat]

You like the Pats or the Colts?

Eye am looking for someone to tail and you seem pretty bright.

 

[roach23]

awesome post.

 

[thecruncher]

At least you named yourself after the source of your plagiarism, lol. A rather succinct and telling tale. 1% of mankind are desperate to find the truth, while 99% are avid in avoiding it. Thanks, Charles.

 

[agentjmw]

Its easy to grin,
When your ship comes in.
And youve got the stock market beat.
But the man worhtiwhile is the man who can smile,
when his shorts arent too tighht in thhe seat...

 

[agentjmw]

There was a man from Nantucket...

 

[Dante]

bukowski...welcome to the RX..... make sure to check out the free contests in the main forum ..great free $$$ there

http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=525742

 

[Bukowski]

awww hell. there is a time to stop reading, there is a time to stop trying to write, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of art out on its whore-ass. this is football, meat, potatoes, and maybe carrots. if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don't do it. sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you've felt that way, and you walk to the bathroom, do your toilet, see that face in the mirror, oh my oh my oh my, but you comb your hair anyway, get into your street clothes, feed the cats, fetch the newspaper of horror, place it on the coffee table, kiss your wife goodbye, and then you are backing the car out into life itself, like millions of others you enter the arena once more

don't start the same as many bettors, don't be like so many thousands of people who call themselves bettors,
don't be dull and boring and pretentious, don't be consumed with favorites, jets lose by three and cover

if it's hard work just thinking about doing it, don't do it. foresake favre and know that all good things come to an end - back KC with such a small number at home

that's very important: not to try, either for injured cadillacs, creation or immortality. you wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more, points will come for the over in florida

it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well, i cant say that about that sonuvabitch carr. take the titans.

some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. thats not the case here because two horrible
offenses are sailing over the total in atlanta today, insanity for the ordinary

you are on the freeway threading through traffic now, moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch the radio on, its low new orleans jazz, which is something soft and under, much less than the eight one points in your last three, drew.

lions and broncos all so delightful and so disappointing because we are all so alike and so different but we both cannot play defense.
there are only the pursued, the pursing, the busy and the tired the pursued cannot be caught today take the over

an intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. an artist says a hard thing in a simple way. jp losman is neither
of those, of that i am certain. used to spend time with a ben-gal, do it again this sunday

the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind. don't add to that. dont be part of the masses lined up against the vikes. salvation lies within this snoozer not on the side - play the under

• NY +3'
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  KC -2
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  TB ov 38
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  TN -4
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  SF ov 36'
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  NO un 40'
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  DET ov 45'
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  CIN -1'
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  SD un 41'

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.