escape

What Can We Do?_{by Charles Bukowski}

at their best, there is gentleness in Humanity.
some understanding and, at times, acts of
courage
but all in all it is a mass, a glob that doesn’t
have too much.
it is like a large animal deep in sleep and
almost nothing can awaken it.
when activated it’s best at brutality,
selfishness, unjust judgments, murder.

what can we do with it, this Humanity?

nothing.

avoid the thing as much as possible.
treat it as you would anything poisonous, vicious
and mindless.
but be careful. it has enacted laws to protect
itself from you.
it can kill you without cause.
and to escape it you must be subtle.
few escape.

it’s up to you to figure a plan.

I have met nobody who has escaped.

I have met some of the great and
famous but they have not escaped
for they are only great and famous within
Humanity.

I have not escaped
but I have not failed in trying again and
again.

before my death I hope to obtain my
life.

~from blank gun silencer – 1994 ~

the most cheered of my goals, isn’t it just wonderful? haha. but what do i mean? how many of you got into thinking about the signification of the word?

ESCAPE. what is it? some kind of a nice word we all like to adopt as a goal for it’s only niceness, like a round white rock from a trip to bali? HA! ha on you, and your precious bali stones.

ESCAPE. if you wish, it’s about the uglyness, the mendacity, the falsity of us, our lives. it’s the 1984, the deer hunter... it’s about humanity we cherish so much, humanity we crown, it ruins us. it’s about humanity we can’t escape and with acceptance – die.

well, yes, no one escapes, but the question is – does one try?