Charles Bukowski — Putrefaction

of late I've had this thought that this country has gone backwards 4 or five decades and that all the advancement the good feeling of person toward person has been washed away and replaced by the same old bigotries we have more than ever the selfish wants of power the disregard for the weak the old the impoverished the helpless. we are replacing want with war salvation with slavery. we have wasted the gains we have become rapidly less. we have our Bomb it is our fear our damnation and our shame. now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.