Bukowski

Now that’s a f*****g unreasonable statement, isn’t it? - Charles Bukowski

 

Like Bukowski I find both drink and death

welcome, let the whiskey win, let the beer

can crush fill the recycle bin, f*****g myself

and then f*****g myself over again;

I should open all my doors

and windows, take four shots,

four beers, a few pills,

dull my steel,

unload all my guns, and wait

and wait

and wait

and drink

and wait

for the reaper to come in.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

you really capture the sense of him...and i often wonder if he was not a really frustrated writer.
Perhaps he thought himself just average with his words, and wished he were great.
Maybe that is why so many seem to relate to him and see him as a cult-writing hero...
good work JR.
j.

[JR]

I think he was very self-deprecating, he always pumped up other writers as "better" in his readings... yet always claimed he was his own favorite writer. LOL. I enjoy his humor. Thanks Jacob, much appreciated.

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I guess everyone at WC get crazy about Bukowski. This is like 6 writing about him what i see here. But I think this more close to his style. Mostly people forget Bukowski was man just few words and this words were usually vulgar and dirty. That's why we loving him. When I read second time this poem. And get to line about guns there was another American genius who pop up at my mind. Hunter S . Thompson when he get always drunk he have to shoot from his collections of heavy guns. His documentary style of writing it's actually very close to Charles . So that was my thoughts about this writing. Have good time.

[JR]

Thanks, man, they both are favorites of mine. I think ol' Chuck is pretty popular around here. When I read him younger, I detested him... I thought it was just a bunch of swear words and vulgar stories. As I age tho, I've gained an appreciation for how he uses simple, vernacular-style speech to convey very large, complex ideas. Thanks, appreciate your read as always.

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When I read him for first time. It was like somebody make me drunk and vomited on me. That truthful ness at his writing can sometimes very dangerous. But when I read it the Factotum. It was like reading my mine. That time I go from job to job from relationship to relationship and alcohol was always something at my blood. I think when he was over 50 he stop sutendly drink. Maybe I should write about that. Cause my consummation of alcohol is very low at this days.