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Charles Bukowski RIP
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Long live the king! One of my favorite poets...well actually the only poet/writer I truly like.
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Seriously?milkncereal wrote:Long live the king! One of my favorite poets...well actually the only poet/writer I truly like.
That's strange. I studied literature, and there are many writers I like, kinda weird you only relate to one well.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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Maybe i should have used the word love...obviously there are many authors that interest me, but Bukowski works always interests me, even the unpublished drunken 'junk'.
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I love drunken junk, you have to be sober enough to still be able to write but drunk enough to verbalise shit.
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how he sees love
Saw him a few times at city lights bookstore in sf in the early 70's he was fantastic live
"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer." HST
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i love bukowski too!!
here's this week's article on him: Poet Bukowski feted 20 years after his death — at dive bar, of course
you can read the article at the link below:
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-0311 ... z2vg6yLVbu
BEER BY BUKOWSKI
I don't know how many bottles of beer
I have consumed while waiting for things
to get better
I dont know how much wine and whisky
and beer
mostly beer
I have consumed after
splits with women-
waiting for the phone to ring
waiting for the sound of footsteps,
and the phone to ring
waiting for the sounds of footsteps,
and the phone never rings
until much later
and the footsteps never arrive
until much later
when my stomach is coming up
out of my mouth
they arrive as fresh as spring flowers:
"what the hell have you done to yourself?
it will be 3 days before you can fuck me!"
the female is durable
she lives seven and one half years longer
than the male, and she drinks very little beer
because she knows its bad for the figure.
while we are going mad
they are out
dancing and laughing
with horney cowboys.
well, there's beer
sacks and sacks of empty beer bottles
and when you pick one up
the bottle fall through the wet bottom
of the paper sack
rolling
clanking
spilling gray wet ash
and stale beer,
or the sacks fall over at 4 a.m.
in the morning
making the only sound in your life.
beer
rivers and seas of beer
the radio singing love songs
as the phone remains silent
and the walls stand
straight up and down
and beer is all there is.
here's this week's article on him: Poet Bukowski feted 20 years after his death — at dive bar, of course
you can read the article at the link below:
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-0311 ... z2vg6yLVbu
BEER BY BUKOWSKI
I don't know how many bottles of beer
I have consumed while waiting for things
to get better
I dont know how much wine and whisky
and beer
mostly beer
I have consumed after
splits with women-
waiting for the phone to ring
waiting for the sound of footsteps,
and the phone to ring
waiting for the sounds of footsteps,
and the phone never rings
until much later
and the footsteps never arrive
until much later
when my stomach is coming up
out of my mouth
they arrive as fresh as spring flowers:
"what the hell have you done to yourself?
it will be 3 days before you can fuck me!"
the female is durable
she lives seven and one half years longer
than the male, and she drinks very little beer
because she knows its bad for the figure.
while we are going mad
they are out
dancing and laughing
with horney cowboys.
well, there's beer
sacks and sacks of empty beer bottles
and when you pick one up
the bottle fall through the wet bottom
of the paper sack
rolling
clanking
spilling gray wet ash
and stale beer,
or the sacks fall over at 4 a.m.
in the morning
making the only sound in your life.
beer
rivers and seas of beer
the radio singing love songs
as the phone remains silent
and the walls stand
straight up and down
and beer is all there is.
My Darling....don't take life too seriously. None of us are going to make it out alive anyway.
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