Charles Bukowski ... A Strange Man Indeed.

[asdf_admin]

i have read over 100 poems today. lol. woke up early and just had him in my mind.

[groffhibbitz]

adsf, that's one of my favorites!

"sometimes I think you hate my cat"

[asdf_admin]

his art is cool. very strange guy indeed.


a smile to remember :cry:

we had goldfish and they circled around and around
in the bowl on the table near the heavy drapes
covering the picture window and
my mother, always smiling, wanting us all
to be happy, told me, "be happy Henry!"
and she was right: it's better to be happy if you
can
but my father continued to beat her and me several times a week while
raging inside his 6-foot-two frame because he couldn't
understand what was attacking him from within.

my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"

and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw

one day the goldfish died, all five of them,
they floated on the water, on their sides, their
eyes still open,
and when my father got home he threw them to the cat
there on the kitchen floor and we watched as my mother
smiled

[diegoff]

strange guy... I love his art... there?s some movie about him, with Bruce Willis... Butterflys in the night or something like that... he?s drunk all the time...

[asdf_admin]

double post. but it is worth it. lol :wink:

SHE SAID
from: War All the Time

what are you doing with all those paper
napkins in your car?
we dont have napkins like
that
how come your car radio is
always turned to some
rock and roll station?do you drive around with
some
young thing?

you're
dripping tangerine
juice on the floor.
whenever you go into
the kitchen
this towel gets
wet and dirty,
why is that?

when you let my
bathwater run
you never
clean the
tub first.

why don't you
put your toothbrush
back
in the rack?

you should always
dry your razor

sometimes
I think
you hate
my cat.

Martha says
you were
downstairs
sitting with her
and you
had your
pants off.

you shouldn't wear
those
$100 shoes in
the garden

and you don't keep
track
of what you
plant out there

that's
dumb

you must always
set the cat's bowl back
in
the same place.

don't
bake fish
in a frying
pan...

I never saw
anybody
harder on the
brakes of their
car
than you.

let's go
to a
movie.

listen what's
wrong with you?
you act
depressed.

[asdf_admin]

^^^ some of his closings are great. surely great to read the image, and have an off the wall remark. classic Bukowski.

[bedrizzock]

just thought I'd

let you

know,

fucker.

[harry ramsden]

theres a couple of poems/ stories that made me have a very fuckin dark feeling in my gut, a couple that hint about peado shit yano? but what you gotta realise is that he writes about real life, and his writing is a way of putting an image in your head of the most brutally honest perception of modern life and humanity and relationships.

[asdf_admin]

i have three of his books. somewhere in my endless libary.

i am a big fan. some of his poems are just "rofl" funny. some on the other hand are purely "blue". as you stated his style of writing is purely simple and interesting to read.

word. :wink:

[harry ramsden]

i have a lot of bukowski books, i never read a book that made me laugh out loud before, he's writing is pure simple and observational yet at the same time thought provoking, its his honesty that smacks you in between the eyes, its not the arty farty type of poetry, its very unpretentious and a lot of people can relate to it.

i highly recommend reading Notes of a Dirty Old Man (so fuckin funny), Betting on the Muse, Tales of Ordinary Madness (great great book), and Mockingbird Wish me Luck, and The Most Beautiful Woman in Town.

Post Office isn't all that, neither is Factotum.

[asdf_admin]

he does ...

the shower http://www.mindspring.com/~stewarts/shower.htm R

#added this ... a radio with guts http://www.mindspring.com/~stewarts/radio.htm

[LV-8]

He needs to get some ass.

[asdf_admin]

8 count http://www.mindspring.com/~stewarts/8.htm

flophouse http://www.mindspring.com/~stewarts/flop.htm

my old man http://www.mindspring.com/~stewarts/old%20man.htm

the night I was going to die http://www.mindspring.com/~stewarts/die.htm



love this guy. a strange man indeed.