{"id":9623,"date":"2016-03-30T06:10:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T10:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2016-03-24T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T23:33:00","slug":"go-all-the-way-charles-bukowski-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=9623","title":{"rendered":"Go All The Way &#8211; Charles Bukowski Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Find your meaning of life, create your meaning of life, then go all the way<br \/>\nTom O&#8217;Bedlam Spoken Verse:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SpokenVerse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=SDDiVrHUB-ag-QX9urOYAg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SpokenVerse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KL2T0XRzWUI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Poet: Charles Bukowski<br \/>\nThe Laughing Heart; Roll the Dice<br \/>\nNarrated by: Tom O&#8217;Bedlam<br \/>\nif you&#8217;re going to try, go all the<br \/>\nway.<br \/>\notherwise, don&#8217;t even start.<\/p>\n<p>if you&#8217;re going to try, go all the<br \/>\nway.<br \/>\nthis could mean losing girlfriends,<br \/>\nwives, relatives, jobs and<br \/>\nmaybe your mind.<\/p>\n<p>go all the way.<br \/>\nit could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.<br \/>\nit could mean freezing on a<br \/>\npark bench.<br \/>\nit could mean jail,<br \/>\nit could mean derision,<br \/>\nmockery,<br \/>\nisolation.<\/p>\n<p>isolation is the gift,<br \/>\nall the others are a test of your<br \/>\nendurance, of<br \/>\nhow much you really want to<br \/>\ndo it.<br \/>\nand you&#8217;ll do it<br \/>\ndespite rejection and the worst odds<br \/>\nand it will be better than<br \/>\nanything else<br \/>\nyou can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>if you&#8217;re going to try,<br \/>\ngo all the way.<br \/>\nthere is no other feeling like<br \/>\nthat.<br \/>\nyou will be alone with the gods<br \/>\nand the nights will flame with<br \/>\nfire.<\/p>\n<p>do it, do it, do it.<br \/>\ndo it.<\/p>\n<p>all the way<br \/>\nall the way.<\/p>\n<p>you will ride life straight to<br \/>\nperfect laughter, it&#8217;s<br \/>\nthe only good fight<br \/>\nthere is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find your meaning of life, create your meaning of life, then go all the way Tom O&#8217;Bedlam Spoken Verse:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SpokenVerse Poet: Charles Bukowski The Laughing Heart; Roll the Dice Narrated by: Tom O&#8217;Bedlam if you&#8217;re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don&#8217;t even start. if you&#8217;re going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. go all the way. it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. it could mean freezing on a park bench. it could mean jail, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation. isolation is the gift, all the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. and you&#8217;ll do it despite rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything else you can imagine. if you&#8217;re going to try, go all the way. there is no other feeling like that. you will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire. do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way. you will ride life straight to perfect laughter, it&#8217;s the only good fight there is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-9623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-tjop"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9624,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions\/9624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}