Roll the Dice- Charles Bukowski

"Roll The Dice"

If you're going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don't even start.

if you're going to try, go all the
way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.

go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you'll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.

if you're going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.

do it, do it, do it.

all the way
all the way.

you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, its
the only good fight
there is.

Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994)


This Scene is Taken from the Movie Feature: Factotum (2005) *Click the link for all relative info at IMDB.com
A great novel written by Charles Bukowski and a great film based upon this book starring Matt Dillon and Lily Taylor, Directed by Bent Hamer.


I decided to dedicate the first post to Bukowski, an old time favorite. Bukowski was a gambler, a drunk, a writer and a poet. (not orderly lined)
This poem might speak about gambling, but in the heart of all of us, I bet we all faced, more than once, a situation in life when we just had to roll these dice and go for it, all the way; at least try.

Bukowski for me is a great writer, with powerful attention grabbing typing persona and a mysterious way to express these words we all thought but didn't have the guts or the talent to express in that sense.

So cheers to Bukowski's work, and to the man himself ; a drunk, a poet, a writer and a gambler. Who rolled the dice so hard it hit my heart beats.