<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354595" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Flophouse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">you haven't lived<br>until you've been in a<br>flophouse<br>with nothing but one<br>light bulb<br>and 56 men<br>squeezed together<br>on cots<br>with everybody<br>snoring<br>at once<br>and some of those<br>snores<br>so<br>deep and<br>gross and<br>unbelievable-<br>dark<br>snotty<br>grosssubhuman<br>wheezings<br>from hell<br>itself.<br>your mind<br>almost breaks<br>under those<br>death-like<br>sounds<br>and the<br>intermingling<br>odors:<br>hard<br>unwashed socks<br>pissed and<br>shitted <br>underwear<br>and over it all<br>slowly circulating<br>air<br>much like that<br>emanating from <br>uncovered<br>garbage<br>cans.<br>and those<br>bodies<br>in the dark<br>fat and<br>thin<br>and<br>bent<br>some<br>legless<br> armless<br>some <br>mindless<br>and worst of<br>all:<br>the total<br>absence of<br>hope<br>it shrouds<br>them<br>covers them<br>totally.<br>it's not<br>bearable.<br>you get<br>up<br>go out<br>walk the <br>streets<br>up and <br>down<br>sidewalks<br>past buildings<br>around the <br>corner<br>and back<br>up<br>the samestreet<br>thinking<br>those men<br>were all<br>children<br>once<br>what has happened<br>to<br>them?<br>and what has<br>happened<br>to<br>me?<br>it's dark<br>and cold<br>out<br>here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Bukowski">Charles Bukowski</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354595" data-title="Flophouse de Charles Bukowski" data-description="you haven't lived until you've been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb and 56 men squeezed together on cots with everybody snoring at once and some of those snores so deep and gross and unbelievable- dark snotty grosssubhuman wheezings..."></div> </div> </div>

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