Portrait of a

I had never seen someone
internally collapse right before my eyes
You raised your arms
reaching, asking
grasping at answers to questions that weren't clear
Your confession confessing nothing
I didn't already know.

Play the piano drunk like a percussion intstrument.

[Charles Bukowski]

“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”