Alone in this room

I am alone in this room as the world
washes over me.
I sit and wait and wonder.
I have a terrible taste in my mouth
as I sit and wait in this room.
I can no loner see the walls.
everything has changed into something else.
I cannot joke about this
I cannot explain this as
the world washes over me.
I don’t care if you believe me because
I’ve lost all interest in that too.
I am in a place where I have never been before.
I am alone in a different place that
does not include faces,
other human beings.
it is happening to me now
in a space within a space as
I sit and wait alone in this room.


 Charles Bukowski
 from “The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain”

Thunderstorm in Monument Valley by Erik Thrane

For "god" or country, they crave for war, the fools

Can you feel the world tension rising?

The global economy sinking... China against Japan... Israel against Iran... The Syrian conflict... The crisis in Europe... Islamic fundamentalists, muslim Brotherhood–inspired organizations, winning elections and becoming power...

Muslim Brotherhood in power - Egypt
                                                                                                                                                      
                       Syrian child wounded by shelling

                                      Chinese demonstrate against Japan

Japanese demonstrate against China 

                                                           

                                                                          Ahmadinejad in the UN raging agaisnt Israel

                                
                                    Netanyahu stating very clearly to the world that Israel will attack Iran

 

 

the con job

 

 

the ground war began today
at dawn
in a desert land
far from here.
the U.S. ground troops were
largely
made up of
Blacks, Mexicans and poor
whites
most of whom had joined
the military
because it was the only job
they could find.

the ground war began today
at dawn
in a desert land
far from here
and the Blacks, Mexicans
and poor whites
were sent there
to fight and win
as on tv
and on the radio
the fat white rich newscasters
first told us all about
it
and then the fat rich white
analysts
told us
why
again
and again
and again
on almost every
tv and radio station
almost every minute
day and night
because
the Blacks, Mexicans
and poor whites
were sent there
to fight and win
at dawn
in a desert land
far enough away from
here.


Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski - Nothing left to die