Writing
from blank gun silencer; 1991
Writing - meaning Summary
Writing as Survival
Bukowski asserts that writing is a solitary, indispensable lifeline that wards off impossibility, despair, and death. He presents it as both practical shelter and spiritual force: a kindliest god, a psychiatrist, a weapon against darkness. Writing endures without surrender, remains self-mocking yet compassionate, and offers the final expectation and explanation when other comforts fail. The poem frames composition as the act that ultimately saves and explains the self.
Read Complete Analysesoften it is the only thing between you and impossibility. no drink, no woman's love, no wealth can match it. nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. the hordes from closing in. it blasts the darkness. writing is the ultimate psychiatrist, the kindliest god of all the gods. writing stalks death. it knows no quit. and writing laughs at itself, at pain. it is the last expectation, the last explanation. that's what it is.
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