Come on In! - Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose. This is the fourth of five new books of unpublished poems from one of the country's most influential and most imitated poets. \n \nanother comeback\n \nclimbing back up out of the ooze, out of \nthe thick black tar, \nrising up again, a modern \nLazarus. \nyou're amazed at your good \nfortune. \nsomehow you've had more \nthan your share of second \nchances. \nhell, accept it. \nwhat you have, you have. \nyou walk and look in the bathroom \nmirror \nat an idiot's smile. \nyou know your luck. \nsome go down and never climb back up. \nsomething is being kind to you. \nyou turn from the mirror and walk into the \nworld. \nyou find a chair, sit down, light a cigar. \nback from a thousand wars \nyou look out from an open door into the silent \nnight. \nSibelius plays on the radio. \nnothing has been lost or destroyed. \nyou blow smoke into the night, \ntug at your right \near. \nbaby, right now, you've got it \nall.\n