this moment

it's a farce, the great actors, the great poets, the great
statesmen, the grate painters, the great composers,the
great loves,
it's a farce, a farce, a farce,
history and the recording of it,
forget it, forget it.

you must begin all over again.
throw all that out.
all of them out

you are alone with now.

look at your fingernails.
touch your nose.

begin.

the day flings itself upon
you.

Charles Bukowski