Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965–1970 by Charles Bukowski

Author:Charles Bukowski
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448114504
Publisher: Virgin Books

[To William Wantling]

oily Febru 1967

[* * *] saw headline in paper: CONGRESS VOWS FIGHT ON CRIME, and I almost sat down and wrote a mother essay, 8 or 9 pages on what crime is and what it APPEARS to be, how our whole social structure houses and pardons and builds laws for everyday sanctioned robbery and crime against each other, whereas a direct and HONEST CRIME is punished by police, judges, juries, the difference says our society is this: you can take a lot and give a little, but you can’t take everything and give nothing, this is the essential difference between Capitalism and the Gun, and the reason why all judges, juries, cops are finks, the dope bit is all the same – it isn’t the dope that matters to them; it’s how you get it, who hands it to you, if it’s in the doctor’s handwriting it’s all right, he is supposed to know whether you need dope or not, that’s why he is so well-paid, but who knows better than I DO WHETHER I NEED DOPE OR NOT? who knows whether I need oranges or eggs or sex or sleep or dope? I do. Who knows whether I am sick or not? the doctor? who is more IMPORTANT? why is everything twisted backwards? but you know all this. [* * *]

well, now I need sleep, if I can only SLEEP! little girl slept with me last night and pissed all over me as usual, but she is a sweet box of candy, she is joy. I look at her and light goes all through me. I am soft, man, soft, and I don’t mind a bit, to feel some kind of love after the jars and holes they’ve had me in, it’s the neatest of miracles. [* * *]

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