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Bo Zarts

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16. All I know about horse racing I learned from Charles Bukowski.

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 05:08 PM

Tuesday

I have wasted a lifetime at the racetrack
and to this moment, I still go every day.

I don’t know any other place to go.
the toteboard flashes and I move in.

–from “The Horse Players” - by Charles Bukowski

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