" but as the food went down with the
sayings
the appetite and digestion went along with them.

it seemed to me that I had never met
another person on earth
as discouraging to my happiness
as my father.

and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

"You are a bum," he told me, "and you'll always be a bum!"

and I thought, if being a bum is to be the
opposite of what this son-of-a-bitch
is, then that's what I'm going to be.

and it's too bad he's been dead
so long
for now he can't see
how beautifully I've succeeded
at
that. "

― Charles Bukowski , You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense