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Apr 19, 2021Liked by Reza Bird

Jumping forward to 1990, Bukowski sent a letter to his friend William Packard and reminded him: “We work too hard. We try too hard. Don’t try. Don’t work. It’s there. It’s been looking right at us, aching to kick out of the closed womb. There’s been too much direction. It’s all free, we needn’t be told. Writing a poem is as easy as beating your meat or drinking a bottle of beer.”

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