Three Interpretations of Charles Bukowski’s Melancholy Poem “Nirvana”

"I’ve ridden a lot of busses–back and forth from city to city, taking the cheapest tickets, which meant traveling overnight, and eating cheap and greasy food at hurried stops along the way. I remember thinking sometimes that I might never come back, that I might lose myself in some small southern town and disappear. I remember those times now as I read Charles Bukowski’s poem 'Nirvana,' a poem about a lost young man who finds in the quaint strangeness of a diner in North Carolina a respite from the confusion of his life."
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