the cure to being a man

Sometimes the only cure is to read a poem by Bukowski twice a day

one in the morning

and again at night

Sometimes there ain't no cure

there ain't no cure anymore

not today

get over it

Why are we so hellbent on curing everything anyway?

seems to be a fool's errand

ask Dr Proctor

ask Karl Marx

a story about my friend Ruth

Let me tell you a story about my friend Ruth. Ruthie Lebowitz. She's a jewish woman from Yorkshire, a jewish lass.

When Ruthie was 32 years old, a man committed a crime against her. I personally don't know this man from Adam but apparently his name was Adam. I don't know what this crime was from Adam. 1 year after Adam had committed this crime against her, when Ruthie was 33 years old, she saw him on Moortown Corner outside Pollards, the newsagents, and invited him back to her house for a cup of tea. He accepted her invitation and went to her house for a cup of tea but had a glass of milk instead of a cup of tea. The milk of human kindness she said to me she said to him when she gave the glass of milk to him. The milk of human kindness came from a cow. It was a right old knees up she told me. After they finished their cup of tea and glass of milk Ruthie led Adam into a room with a bed in it. When they were both in the room with a bed in it Ruthie swiftly exited and locked the door behind her. Adam asked her to unlock the door but she refused to unlock the door. You're going to spend 5 years there she told him. Over the next 3 years she gave him 3 meals a day and 1 hour outside in the garden and granted him use of the bathroom facilities and all that geneva convention whatnot. 2 years before the 5 years she had told him he would spend in the room with a bed were up she let him go because he had been good boy whilst he was in there. 2 years after the 3 years she had made Adam spend in the room with a bed in it, 2 policemen, both women, turned up on Ruthie's doorstep. They arrested her. 2 months after the 2 policemen, both women, arrested Ruthie, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for imprisoning Adam. The judge told her she had no right to do what she did.

Question and Answer

Is tolerance good enough?

it is

and it isn't