<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=497693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Why Be A Bukowski Or An Emily? They Are All Dead</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">hey friend, dear poet<br>why be an emily dickenson or a charles bukowski<br>or a walt whitman or an ezra pound</div><div style="margin:10px 0">look man, they are all dead<br>they're great, they have given themselves <br>extraordinary fames <br>commensurate to their extraordinary works<br>but they are all dead<br>and they have no more possibilities</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they are all impotents<br>and faded and (forgive the word) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">gone, gone, gone, gone.<br>let them be but part of our memories, <br>nothing but maps, guides, to the roads that we must now <br>take, <br>ghosts, famous ghosts, but ghosts just the same, <br>spirits, their poems are here with us<br>as a legacy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but we are alive, we are the possibilities<br>we are more than miserable with our <br>search for meaning<br>our quest to justify our insignificances<br>these little cravings for light<br>and scent and color<br>these little lives we have</div><div style="margin:10px 0">if true to our miseries<br>as they were true to theirs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we can even be more <br>than what they had in their own time<br>in their own lives<br>have become......</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sail on man, sail on, in the ocean of possibilities<br>in the vast space of our potentialities</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we can be ourselves, truly ourselves, <br>that to me, <br>is greatness enough</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=497693" data-title="Why Be A Bukowski Or An Emily? They Are All Dead de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="hey friend, dear poet why be an emily dickenson or a charles bukowski or a walt whitman or an ezra pound look man, they are all dead they're great, they have given themselves extraordinary fames commensurate to their extraordinary works but the..."></div> </div> </div>

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