Roll the Dice! by C Bukowski

Roll the Dice!
by Charles Bukowski

if you’re going to try, go all theway

otherwise, don’t even start.

if you’re going to try,

go all theway.

this could mean losing girlfriends,

wives, relatives, jobs

and maybe your mind.

go all the way.

it could mean not eating for 3 or4 days

it could mean freezing on a park bench

it could mean jail,

it could mean derision,

mockery, isolation

isolation is the gift,

all the others are a test of your endurance,

of how much you really want to do it

and you’ll do it despite rejection

and the worst odds

and it will be better than anything else you can imagine.

if you’re going to try,

go all the way.

there is no other feeling like that.

you will be alone with thegods and the nights will flame withfire.

do it, do it, do it

do it

all the way, all the way.

you will ride life straight to perfect laughter, it’s the only good fight there is.