Some Poeple Go to Night Easy Bukowski

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1.	the aliens prelude in D major wk I there are people who go through life easily, but I am not one of them
2.	balloons fugue in D major wk I a guy who was selling balloons got shot
3.	flat tire prelude in c sharp minor wk I misery on the freeway
4.	blasted apart with the first breath fugue in f minor wk I if, at the end of our life, we look back, we find out that it is sad, incomparable, and worst of all is not that we wasted our lives, but that it was wasted on us
5.	Charles the Lion-Hearted prelude in E major wk I ode to an old man
6.	transport fugue in a minor wk I characteristics of travelling by bus, train and airplane, peculiarities of own cars and in the end a dream trip
7.	the bluebird prelude in g sharp minor wk I there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but nobody may find out it's there, occasionally, when everybody is asleep, I let him out
8.	in the bottom fugue in b minor wk I apparently chaotic series of impressions
9.	be kind fugue in D flat major wk II we always have to be kind to other people, especially if they are old, but age is the total of our doing; age is not a crime, but a deliberately wasted life is
10.	eyeless through space fugue in f sharp minor wk I it's no longer any good, the world is upside down, lots of things are wrong, it was going to happen and now it did
11.	nirvana prelude in b minor wk II on a bus ride a young man experiences the unexpected magic of a little cafe in the hills
12.	this prelude in b flat minor wk II this ridiculous idolizing of our celebs, but hey, we maintain it ourselves
13.	surprise time again prelude in A major wk II wanted: killer
14.	jam fugue in c sharp minor wk I friday night traffic jam troubles
15.	spark prelude in b minor wk I I always hated my time as a worker, I considered suicide, but something in me said I had to save a spark
16.	within the dense overcast fugue in B major wk II reflections of different kind
17.	flophouse prelude in b flat minor wk I the atmosphere at the shelter for the homeless, where 56 men are squeezed together; it's hopeless, you cannot bare it and you wonder what has happened to the children from once
18.	the idiot fugue in D major wk II as a child I decided to become an idiot, slowly people started to notice and Mrs. Gredis took care of me
19.	oh, I was a ladies' man prelude in B flat major wk II hunter or hunted, in control or submit to, lust or load?
20.	peace prelude in D flat major wk II in a cafe a couple drink a beer
21.	Dinosauria, we fugue in b flat minor wk II a profetic sketch of the end of life on earth; even the rich can't get away from it
22.	you know and I know and thee know prelude in f minor wk I the end as we know it now seems a lousy trick after a lousy agony, but we all know, during the most different situations, that we will defeat death

With special thanks to the Estate of
Charles Bukowski & Mrs. L. Bukowski and John Martin.

In memory of the Black Sparrow Press.

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