Alcoholics Quote by Charles Bukowski

“We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti” quote by Charles Bukowski — Download Open image

“We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti”

Charles Bukowski

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