quote

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
Charles Bukowski I am reading a book of poetry and I looked for Bukowski. I found this quote an I feel like this means a lot it has a lot of meaning to it. I think it means if somthing bad is happening to you and you don't know it then you still have another chance yet you don't know that your loosing somwthing. I think I'm wrong but I really want someone to tell me what this quote means

More and more I'm starting to like Bukowski. I feel like he's just so honest about the books he writes, just recently I realized the I am growing older and older, my knowledge is expanding, I realized this when I finished reading Hot Water Music, when I finished reading this book I must say Im really scared to grow up. I finished this book on Sunday. I rather enjoyed this book with all it's details. In this quote I do not understand it at all I need help, someone to explain what the character Valoff meant when he is saying.

"...conditiond under the hump of valor
the ersatz imminent piddling rectangle is
no more than a gene 'in genoa
a quadruplet Quetzalcoatal
and the Chink cries bittersweet and barbaric
into her muff"

In this quote is kinda inappropriate, I really want to know what this means.