Roll of the dice - Charles Bukowski

After speaking about life, art and the constant struggle with my tattoo artist/friend, I thought I would put this up for him and share it with the rest you guys too.... Sometimes it's hard to keep perspective.

if your going to try, go all the 

way.

otherwise, don't even start.

if you're going to try, go all the 

way.

this could mean losing girlfriends, 

wives, relatives, jobs and 

maybe your mind.

go all the way.

if could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.

it could mean freezing on a

park bench.

it could mean jail, 

it could mean derision, 

mockery,

isolation.

isolation is the gift, 

all the others are a test of your 

endurance, of

how much you really want to 

do it.

and you'll do it

despite rejection and the worst odds

and it will be better than anything else 

you can imagine.

if you're going to try, 

go all the way.

there is no other feeling like that

you will be alone with the gods 

and the nights will flame with 

fire.

do it, do it, do it.

do it.

all the way

all the way.

you will ride life straight to 

perfect laughter, it's

the only good fight

there is.

Prolific Digestions - Prologue

So this is the beginning.  This is where it starts.  Right here on this page for the first time.  The dysfunctional rhetoric of a narcissistic man that fancies himself an "artist".  How does that sound?  Are you interested yet?

I don't even know if  I myself, am indeed, interested....

Do you ever notice, how the world sounds at two in the morning?  Almost peaceful.  But not quiet right?  We know better, but it's nice to pretend right?

So here I am, right smack in the middle of all of it.  Trying to figure out what's next.  Almost cliche, but yet, you can not deny reality.  Maybe it would be easier if there were just a manual.  You know, a step by step, "how to guide".  Wouldn't that be easy?....  But wait, if it were, then everyone would be doing it right?  And if everyone was a wonder, then all the glory would be gone.?  And it's all about the glory, right?  Or isn't it about the "quest"?  Yes, yes, it's the journey...  So what's with all the questions then?

Like it or not, the mind can not accept the simplicity of the philosophic theories.  Reality smacks you across the face and tells you that you've done nothing.  It's all in you head.  It doesn't exist in the world yet.

Can a creation manifested in reality, exist in reality if it hasn't existed outside of your own personal reality?  I wonder...

So I find myself pleading to give this creation life.  A life beyond my world, beyond my circle.  A life that allows the rest of the world to sip it up if  they choose.  For better or worse.  A piece of work needs to be seen, needs to be criticized and deconstructed.  Digested in the souls of other human beings.  I feel the responsibility to put it out there and let you and whoever else make their own decision...