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Style
By Charles Bukowski
Style is the answer to everything.
A Fresh way to approach
a dull or dangerous thing.
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing
without it.
To
do a dangerous thing with style, is what I call art.
Bullfighting can be an art.
Boxing can be an art.
Loving can
be an art.
Opening a can of sardines can be an art.
Not many have style.
Not many can keep style.
I have seen
dogs with more style than men.
Although not many dogs have style.
Cats have it with abundance.
When Hemingway
put his brains to the wall with a shotgun, that was style.
For sometimes people give you style.
Joan of Arc had style.
John
the Baptist.
Christ.
Socrates.
Caesar.
García Lorca.
I have met men in jail with style.
I have met more
men in jail with style than men out of jail.
Style is a difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
Six herons
standing quietly in a pool of water, or you, walking
out of the bathroom naked without seeing me.
Style by Charles Bukowski, read by himself.
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