saloandseverine:

Book cover, Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming
the village idiot.
I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the
happy idiot
able to get food easily
…and easy sympathy,
a planned confusion of not too much love or effort.

some would claim that I have succeeded.

Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems