I am a series of small victories
and large defeats
and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten
from there to here
without committing murder
or being murdered;
without having ended up in the madhouse.
As I drink alone again tonight
my soul despite all the past agony
thanks all the gods
who were
not there
for me
then.”
- Charles Bukowski
The People Look Like Flowers at Last
