Charles Bukowski.
You will probably get sick of me talking about him; fine with me.
There is a raw beauty to his work—a brutal honesty. There are too many favourites.
Get your hands on two of his collected works, The Last Night on Earth Poems and Love is a Dog From Hell.
We are sitting in our local coffee shop. I am supposed to be doing a Uni assignment. Shell shows me this.
It is from the 2009 book of poems, The Continual Condition.
No one seems to know when it was written. Charles died in 1994, so it is at least 30 years old.
Bukowski was a prophet.