The Dark Edge
from The Suicide Kid
by Charles Bukowski
I went to the worst of bars
hoping to get
killed.
but all I could do was to
get drunk
again.
worse, the bar patrons even
ended up
liking me.
there I was trying to get
pushed over the dark
edge
and I ended up with
free drinks
while somewhere else
some poor
son-of-a-bitch was in a hospital
bed,
tubes sticking out all over
him
as he fought like hell
to live.
posted by Presley Bennett @ 9/11/2005
2 comments
2 Comments:
What's really amazing is that it seems more people would admire the self-destructive barfly than someone desperately struggling to live. But maybe that's only true among literature professors.
I think that's Bukowski's point. That and the fact that he's trying to kill himself while some other guy is trying to hold on to life...but then that's just my guess, I'm not a literature professor.
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