An ode to Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski's documentary "Born into this" made me get inspired to write this poem. He taught me to live with "impossibilities" in a possible manner...

Mess me up

I will come out strong,

All those rantings and all those beatings

Made me wander in streets...

All those insults of me being the worst

Made me invincible...

Stealing candy bars and ravishing on them

Were my utmost bliss...

Beers and cigarettes,

My form of peace

Anyone had a problem with it?

Not a problem ,no please.

I knew I was being pushed

“I was kind-hearted”

This is me.

“I’ll give the other person another chance”

To make a fool out of me.

Reviews

[Thiwanka]

Beers and cigarettes , my form of peace. But to our society I 'm a kind of beast.

[Pandora]

Not for certain people. Certain appreciate your form of peace.

[Hyphenated]

"I'll give another person another chance to make a fool out of me" this is the next level of self awareness, which sometimes is too hard to cope up with

[Pandora]

These words were uttered by Bukowski himself! Shows how a single man has actually understood how to live life around “people”. Ultimate level of self awareness

[albee]

I see my generations' stark naked mad for all those cravings of food sex smoke booze dope...
stark naked mad in out rage over whelmed rants of anger despair and and all that injustice...
seemingly seeing a light over there some where we leap the cliff with heart first...

[Pandora]

This is so true...We do leap the cliff with heart first. You gave my poem a new perspective for me to see. Thank you💙

[albee]

I see the cliffs I have leaped in this ode to Budawski..

I believe poems are like run away children bursting with growth...
we sapiens are meaning making meme machines…we swallow, digest, excrete memes…a few might seed, grow, replicate, and climb mountains in the mind’s rich intwined vines….

[Pandora]

Your definition to poetry is on point! The more you feed words into the poems the more it grows...