Style - Charles Bukowski, Charles Bukowkski

Style is the answer to everything.

Fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous day.

To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a

Dangerous thing without style.

To do a dangerous thing with style, is what I call art.

Bullfighting can be an art.

Boxing can be an art.

Loving can be an art.

Opening a can of sardines can be an art.

Not many have style.

Not many can keep style.

I have seen dogs with more style than men.

Although not many dogs have style.

Cats have it with abundance.

When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a

Shotgun, that was style.

For sometimes people give you style.

Joan of Arc had style.

John the Baptist.

Jesus.

Socrates.

Caesar.

García Lorca.

I have met men in jail with style.

I have met more men in jail with style than men out of

Jail.

Style is a difference, a way of doing, a way of being

Done.

Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water, or you,

Walking

Out of the bathroom without seeing me.