Fire Made Flesh - Caspian, Charles Bukowski

If you are going to try go all the way

Otherwise, don’t even start

If you are going to try go all the way

This could mean losing relatives, jobs and maybe your mind

Go all the way

It could mean not eating for three or four days

It could mean freezing on a park bench

It could mean… jail

It could mean derision

Mockery, isolation.

Isolation is a 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 are going to try, go all the way.

There is no other feeling like that

You will be alone with the gods and the nights with fire

Do it

All the way

It’s the only good fight there is