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Charles Bukowski - Death Wants More Death
    death wants more death, and its webs are full:
    I remember my father's garage, how child-like
    I would brush the corpses of flies
    from the windows they thought were escape-
    their sticky, ugly, vibrant bodies
    shouting like dumb crazy dogs against the glass
    only to spin and flit
    in that second larger than hell or heaven
    onto the edge of the ledge,
    and then the spider from his dank hole
    nervous and exposed
    the puff of body swelling
    hanging there
    not really quite knowing,
    and then knowing-
    something sending it down its string,
    the wet web,
    toward the weak shield of buzzing,
    the pulsing;
    a last desperate moving hair-leg
    there against the glass
    there alive in the sun,
    spun in white;
    and almost like love:
    the closing over,
    the first hushed spider-sucking:
    filling its sack
    upon this thing that lived;
    crouching there upon its back
    drawing its certain blood
    as the world goes by outside
    and my temples scream
    and I hurl the broom against them:
    the spider dull with spider-anger
    still thinking of its prey
    and waving an amazed broken leg;
    the fly very still,
    a dirty speck stranded to straw;
    I shake the killer loose
    and he walks lame and peeved
    towards some dark corner
    but I intercept his dawdling
    his crawling like some broken hero,
    and the straws smash his legs
    now waving
    above his head
    and looking
    looking for the enemy
    and somewhat valiant,
    dying without apparent pain
    simply crawling backward
    piece by piece
    leaving nothing there
    until at last the red gut sack
    splashes
    its secrets,
    and I run child-like
    with God's anger a step behind,
    back to simple sunlight,
    wondering
    as the world goes by
    with curled smile
    if anyone else
    saw or sensed my crime
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