When I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.


The Continual Condition: Poems (ed. Harper Collins, 2009) - ISBN: 9780061942679

Charles Bukowski Quotes

When I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily...and ...

When I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily...and ...

When I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily...and ...

When I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily...and ...