Lifting weights at 2 a.mby Charles Bukowski.

queers do this or is it that you're afraid to die? Biceps, triceps, forceps, What are you going to do with muscles? Well, muscles please the ladies and keep the bullies at bay - so what? Is it worth it? Is it worth the collected works of Balzac? or a 3 week vacation in Spain? Or, is it another way of suffering? if you got paid to do it, you'd hate it. If a man got paid to make love he'd hate it.

Still, one needs the excercise - this writing game: only the brain and soul get worked-out.quit your bitching and do it. while others are sleepingyou're lifting a mountain with rivers of poems running off.