Ep 189 – The Nickel Empire

Author: Wayne Keyser
Published: Thu 01 May 2025
Episode Link: https://ballycast.com/?p=6111

Episode 189 – The Nickel Empire

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Charles Bukowski, American poet, wrote this:

while the rents go up elsewhere

this is where the poor people come to live

the people on AFDC and relief

the large families with bad jobs

the strange lonely men on old age pensions waiting to die.

here among the massage parlors

the pawn shops

the liquor stores

caught in the smog and the squalor

even the dogs look inept

don’t bark or chase cats,

and the cats walk up and down the streets

and never catch a bird

but the birds are there

but you can’t see them

you only hear them

sometimes in the night at 3:30 a.m.

after the last streetwalker has made her last score.

the rents go up here too

but compared to most others we are living for free

because nobody wants to live with the

likes of us.

none of us have new cars

most of us walk

and we don’t care who wins the election.

but we have wife-beaters here too

just like the others

and child-beaters

just like the others

and sex freaks and TV sets just like the others

and we’ll die just like the others

only a little earlier

and we’ll eat just like the others

only cheaper stuff

and lie just like the others

only with a little less imagination.

and even though our streetwalkers don’t look as good as your wives

I think our cats and our birds and dogs are better

and don’t forget the low rent.

Charles Bukowski

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