Bukowski's Slouching Toward Nirvana
Bukowski's Slouching Toward Nirvana
the latest collection de poems from Buk.
i tell ya, this one 's as good as any published in his day. poignant and observant and acerbic as hell.
some great lines. including some about hell. (that you can't tell people you are in hell when you are in it b/c they think you crazy.)
including
"poetry is a lie."
(see Anti-Academy thread on art and religion.)
i tell ya, this one 's as good as any published in his day. poignant and observant and acerbic as hell.
some great lines. including some about hell. (that you can't tell people you are in hell when you are in it b/c they think you crazy.)
including
"poetry is a lie."
(see Anti-Academy thread on art and religion.)
I don't think 'Therefore, I am.' Therefore, I am.
but seriously, there is some of the most misanthropic, yet philosophic, stuff from Buk's stash, and a lot of the classic short story qua free verse poem that he excells at, with the old themes of:
childhood school memories,
race track participant observation studies of the human species, lonely drunken room gloom, working hatred of work, bar room duldrums lead to fighting leads to punch drunk wisdom, etc. etc. always from a new angle, the pain and insight is in, deep within, the details.
childhood school memories,
race track participant observation studies of the human species, lonely drunken room gloom, working hatred of work, bar room duldrums lead to fighting leads to punch drunk wisdom, etc. etc. always from a new angle, the pain and insight is in, deep within, the details.
I don't think 'Therefore, I am.' Therefore, I am.
Reply to Bukowski's poem To Hell and Back
hell is not an external place
but an internal one
once hell has erupted
within your mind
there is no
returning
just
simply
turning and turning
but
one can seek
to cultivate a garden
of eden within hades
the Lord did this once
and He called it
Earth
hell is not an external place
but an internal one
once hell has erupted
within your mind
there is no
returning
just
simply
turning and turning
but
one can seek
to cultivate a garden
of eden within hades
the Lord did this once
and He called it
Earth
I don't think 'Therefore, I am.' Therefore, I am.
seriously, there is some excellent stuff in this collection.
some random lines i recall, such as:
"when . . . the monkey steals from the accordian man"
[on the train of fools]
"the poet sits in the passenger lounge reading tomorrow's newspaper"
etc.
etc.
some random lines i recall, such as:
"when . . . the monkey steals from the accordian man"
[on the train of fools]
"the poet sits in the passenger lounge reading tomorrow's newspaper"
etc.
etc.
I don't think 'Therefore, I am.' Therefore, I am.
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Freud was annoyedon the train of fools]
"the poet sits in the passenger lounge reading tomorrow's newspaper"
Every where he went
A poet had been there first
I think I owe yu an appology Herr e-dog
I took your name in vain yesterday
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