The Laughing Heart - Charles Bukowski, read by Tom O’Bedlam

Your life if your life

Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission

be on the watch.

there are ways out.

there is a light somewhere.

it may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

be on the watch.

the gods will offer you chances.

know them

take them

you can’t beat death but

you can beat death in life, sometimes.

and the more often you learn to do it,

the more light there will be.

your life is your life.

know it while you have it.

you are marvelous

the gods wait to delight

in you.