gamblers all by Charles Bukowski

sometimes you get out of bed in the morning and you think,
I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside
remembering all the times you felt that way, and
you walk to the bathroom, do your toilet, see that fac
in the mirror, oh my oh my oh my, but you comb your hair
anyway,
get into your street clothes, feed the cats, fetch the
newspaper of horror, place it on the coffee table, kiss your
wife goodbye, and then you are backing the car out into life
itself,
like millions of others you enter the arena once more.

you are on the freeway threading though traffic now,
moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as
you punch
the radio on and get Mozart, which is something, and you will
somehow
get through the slow days, and the busy days, and the dull
days and the hateful days and the rare days, all both so
delightful
and so disappointing because
we are all so alike and so different.

you find the turn-off, drive through the most dangerous
part of town, feel momentarily wonderful as Mozart works
his way into your brain and slides down along your bones and
out through your shoes.

it's been a tough fight worth fighting
as we all drive along
betting on another day.