<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Laughing Heart</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">your life is your life</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">be on the watch.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">there are ways out.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">there is a light somewhere.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">it may not be much light but</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">it beats the darkness.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">be on the watch.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the gods will offer you chances.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">know them.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">take them.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">you can't beat death but</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">you can beat death in life, sometimes.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and the more often you learn to do it,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the more light there will be.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">your life is your life.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">know it while you have it.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">you are marvelous</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the gods wait to delight</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">in you.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Charles Bukowski</span></div></div></body></html>