Having The Flu And With Nothing Else To Do - Poem by Charles Bukowski

I read a book about John Dos Passos and according to
the book once radical-communist
John ended up in the Hollywood Hills living off investments
and reading the
Wall Street Journal 

this seems to happen all too often. 


what hardly ever happens is
a man going from being a young conservative to becoming an
old wild-ass radical 

however:
young conservatives always seem to become old
conservatives.
it's a kind of lifelong mental vapor-lock. 

but when a young radical ends up an
old radical
the critics
and the conservatives
treat him as if he escaped from a mental
institution. 

such is our politics and you can have it
all. 

keep it. 

sail it up your
ass.