October 2, 2009 | Heroes

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a certain pride here

Charles Bukowski (Open All Night)

I don’t care to have my writing

praised too often:

it’s dangerous for the writing and

for me.

Writing is what one does,

it’s like a spider spinning its

web.

you do what you have

to do.

yet, regarding praise, I sometimes

weaken,

say when they write me

from the prisons that they

like my stuff.

or I like it better yet

when they write me

from the madhouse that they

like my stuff.

the bit I liked best, though,

was when the

madam of a Nevada whorehouse

wrote me

that she and the girls

liked my stuff

and anytime

I was in the neighborhood

I could have all of it I wanted
for free.

that beats

any notice I might get

in the N.Y. Times

hands

down.