Show Biz
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Stoic Acceptance of Small Hopes
Bukowski presents life as a low-budget, chaotic show in which grand attainments are unlikely. The poem urges readers to abandon big expectations and instead stick to simple daily routines — get up, wash, dress, go out — and accept small comforts when they appear. Faced with the risks of despair, the speaker recommends pragmatic persistence and a modest baseline of hope, treating each ordinary day as the longest run one can hope for.
Read Complete AnalysesI can't have it and you can't have it and we won't get it so don't bet on it or even think about it just get out of bed each morning wash shave clothe yourself and go out into it because outside of that all that's left is suicide and madness so you just can't expect too much you can't even expect so what you do is work from a modest minimal base like when you walk outside be glad your car might possibly be there and if it is- that the tires aren't flat then you get in and if it starts--you start. and it's the damndest movie you've ever seen because you're in it-- low budget and 4 billion critics and the longest run you ever hope for is one day.
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