you told me it was over you told me it was finished, listen, I've lived long enough to become a good woman, why do you need a bad woman? you need to be tortured, don't you? you think life is rotten if somebody treats you rotten it all fits, doesn't it? tell me, is that ...
If one were to visit the grave of Charles Bukowski, one would find on the tombstone the words “Don’t Try”. At first glance, one would most assuredly take this to be a call to quit, to give up the pursuit, or to abandon vision. However, this is not at all what was intended. ...
sit very quietly in their caged tree and below on the ground are chunks of rotten meat. the vultures are over-full. our taxes have fed them well. we move on to the next cage. a man is in there sitting on the ground eating his own shit. i recognize him as our former mailman. his...
my plight is just as terrible. maybe more so. victory was so close victory was there. as she stood before my mirror younger and more beautiful than any woman I had ever known combing yards and yards of red hair as I watched her. and when she came to bed she was more beautiful than ...
The Laughing Heart Your life is your life Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out. There is light somewhere. It may not be much light but It beats the darkness. Be on the watch. The gods will offer you chances. Know them. Take them. Yo...
查尔斯·布考斯基(Charles Bukowski),一位引发争议的美国诗人和小说家,以其生动而直白的写作风格闻名于世。他的作品经常描绘了生活的边缘人物,展现了社会底层的艰辛和疏离感。布考斯基的诗作《蓝鸟》正是其文学作品的典型代表,深刻揭示了人性的脆弱和内心的挣扎。《蓝鸟》是布考斯基的自白式诗歌,于1992年发表于他的...
This collection includes poems by Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, T. S. Eliot, Edgar Allen Poe, W. B. Yeats, Dorothy Parker, Jane Kenyon, and many more, including teenage writers and up-and-coming poets.RosenbergLiz (Editor) / November...
lifted the bottle and sucked at it as the light from the boulevard came in through the dusty blinds. then he just sat and looked out and watched the cars, passing back and forth. #1993#AmericanWriters#ThePleasuresOfTheDamned Other works by Charles Bukowski... 1 1...
CONGRATULATIONS to the family of the late great poet Charles Bukowski, having been chosen as The Modern Poem Of The Day.. A scintillating poem, only possible by such a great poet. Excellent theme.5 Stars *** 0 0 Reply Mehta Hasmukh Amathalal 15 October 2020 Nice one.. liked and ...
A Challenge To The DarkCharles Bukowski shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the *** shot like a flower in the dance ... Read Poem Father Death BluesAllen Ginsberg Hey Father Death, I'm flying home Hey poor man, you're all alone Hey...