The Knuckle Soul’s Ascendance

Steve B Howard
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read
“A shirtless man with tattoos on his body and rings on his fingers having a punk haircut in London” by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash

“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”

— Charles Bukowski

Even the spines forged in super nova
eat shit when the bad chemical brain
dumps drag them by the balls down to
the busted glass world where their
potential quivers and shakes in fear.
And they search for the junky’s
loop hole OD cop out.

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