Alone With Everybody
Charles Bukowski * Track #2 On Love Is a Dog from Hell
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Alone With Everybody by Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski wrote about the lives of ordinary people inspired by his observations in his home city, Los Angeles
“Alone With Everybody” is a poem from his collection of poetry, “Love is a Dog from Hell,” published in 1977.
The title could imply an individual feeling alone in a crowd or that ev...
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the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but they keep looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.
there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.
the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill
nothing else
fills.