Largage dominical #28

what can we do?
at their best, there is gentleness in Humanity.
some understanding and, at times, acts of
courage
but all in all it is a mass, a glob that doesn't
have too much.
it is like a large animal deep in sleep and
almost nothing can awaken it.
when activated it's best at brutality,
selfishness, unjust judgments, murder.
what can we do with it, this Humanity?
nothing.
avoid the thing as much as possible.
treat it as you would anything poisonous, vicious
and mindless.
but be careful. it has enacted laws to protect
itself from you.
it can kill you without cause.
and to escape it you must be subtle.
few escape.
it's up to you to figure a plan.
I have met nobody who has escaped.
I have met some of the great and
famous but they have not escaped
for they are only great and famous within
Humanity.
I have not escaped
but I have not failed in trying again and
again.
before my death I hope to obtain my
life.

Charles Bukowski
from blank gun silencer - 1994

Lucidité

The riots

I've watched this city burn twice
in my lifetime
and the most notable thing
was the arrival of the
politicians in the
aftermath
proclaiming the wrongs of
the system
and demanding new
policies toward and for the
poor.

nothing was corrected last
time.
nothing will be corrected this
time.

the poor will remain poor.
the unemployed will remain
so.
the homeless will remain
homeless

and the politicians,
fat upon the land, will live
very well.

Charles Bukowski

5/5/1992

Largage dominical #16

Miroir

«Ce ne sont pas les grands événements qui envoient un homme à l'asile. La mort, il y est préparé, tout comme le meurtre, l'inceste, le vol, le feu, l'inondation. Non, c'est la succession continuelle des petites tragédies.»

Charles Bukowski

Sans titre

"(...) Il y a de bonnes raisons d'interdire le LSD, le DMT, le STP, on peut bousiller définitivement sa tête avec, mais pas plus qu'au ramassage des betteraves ou en bossant à la chaîne chez General Motors, en faisant la plonge ou en enseignant l'anglais dans une fac. Si on interdisait tout ce qui nous rend dingues, toute la société y passerait : le mariage, la guerre, le métro, les abattoirs, les clapiers, les tables d'opération, etc. Tout peut virtuellement nous faire craquer parce que la société repose sur des piliers pourris. (...)"

Charles Bukowski (Nouveaux contes de la folie ordinaire / Editions Grasset / Livre de poche), traduction de Léon Mercadet.