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Old 12-02-2009, 05:42 PM
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You Said Too Simple?

Confession
By Charles Bukowski
(1920-1994)

waiting for death
like a cat
that will jump on the
bed

I am so very sorry for
my wife

she will see this
stiff
white
body
shake it once, then
maybe
again

"Hank!"

Hank won't
answer.

it's not my death that
worries me, it's my wife
left with this
pile of
nothing.

I want to
let her know
though
that all the nights
sleeping
beside her

even the useless
arguments
were things
ever splendid

and the hard
words
I ever feared to
say
can now be
said:

I love
you.
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wow-i cant believe i missed this one. and to think i never heard of this guy...
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Certain poems bring home the futility of life's pettiness and the finality of death. This is one. I can hear my own thoughts ringing through this poem. Thanks Catch..
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