In Praise of Charles Bukowski
5 min readJun 2, 2021
The great inspirational pessimist
Every time I hear or read Charles Bukowski, my mind falls silent in reverence. His chaotic loneliness gave birth to some of the most haunting words I have read about life. His words often evoke the mood of Nighthawk by Edward Hopper in me; seeing the poetic in the plebian passage of time.
