“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” 🔥 “We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” 🥃 “Find what you love and let it kill you.” 💀
He did not write about love as a fairy tale. He wrote about the arguments, the make-up sex, the jealousy, and the eventual departure. In "one for the shoeshine man," or his numerous poems about his great love Jane Cooney Baker, we see a vulnerability that contradicts his tough-guy persona. The tragedy of Jane's death haunts his work, serving as a reminder of the fragility of life and the pain of memory. poesia charles bukowski