SpokenVerse | Alone With Everybody by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam) @SpokenVerse | Uploaded June 2014 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Bukowski always typed his stuff mostly using an Underwood or an Olympia. I didn't type it but used a font called Loveletter Typewriter - it's a free to download. There's a timeline of his life and work here: bukowski.net/timeline

The picture of the couple kissing is from the movie 'Blue Valentine' starring Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams. The movie came into my mind as I was reading the poem.

I found the graveyard picture here:
deviantart.com/art/Jewish-Graveyard-I-23795013

the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,

and the women break
vases against the walls

and the men drink too
much

and nobody finds the
one

but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.

there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.

nobody ever finds
the one.

the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

nothing else
fills.