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 This is the fourth of five new books of unpublished poems from one of the country's most influential and most imitated poets.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 comebackn 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