This seller may mean well, but I highly doubt this little booklet is from 1969:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extraordina...=WDVW&rd=1&ih=022&category=29223&cmd=ViewItem
nothwithstanding it was "Just found in a family member's estate".
There are said to be three poems in this book:
Poem for the DMV
Flying Through Space
The Last Person
Of those, the second one is said to have been written, according to the manuscripts section of this very website, to have been written in 1990 for Septuagenarian Stew. I guess it's possible it was a rehash of an "old 1969 poem that he first published in 'Charles Bukowski Poems from 1969'.
However, once you look a little closer you see that in spite of the copyright being from 1969, the contents of the first poem "Poem for the DMV" includes the following passage on the first page (directly from the photo in listing):
I've been pretty damned sick
for the last 4 months,
lost 42 pounds,
got so damned weak one time
I couldn't get out of bed
for 2 weeks,
then they ran me through
just about every piece of
equipment at the
San Pedro Peninsula Hospital
and couldn't find
anything
so I got into my
brand new
(Poster note: and here's where the plot thickens, timeline wise)
Acura Legend
and drove to the racetrack.
According to car website Edmunds.com, the Acura Legend was first produced in 1989 as the 1990 model. The buk.net website timeline notes that he bought such a car in 1989.
This book is not from 1969.
Am I missing something?
EDIT: Perhaps I should have posted in "Is it real" but being that this is not signed....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extraordina...=WDVW&rd=1&ih=022&category=29223&cmd=ViewItem
nothwithstanding it was "Just found in a family member's estate".
There are said to be three poems in this book:
Poem for the DMV
Flying Through Space
The Last Person
Of those, the second one is said to have been written, according to the manuscripts section of this very website, to have been written in 1990 for Septuagenarian Stew. I guess it's possible it was a rehash of an "old 1969 poem that he first published in 'Charles Bukowski Poems from 1969'.
However, once you look a little closer you see that in spite of the copyright being from 1969, the contents of the first poem "Poem for the DMV" includes the following passage on the first page (directly from the photo in listing):
I've been pretty damned sick
for the last 4 months,
lost 42 pounds,
got so damned weak one time
I couldn't get out of bed
for 2 weeks,
then they ran me through
just about every piece of
equipment at the
San Pedro Peninsula Hospital
and couldn't find
anything
so I got into my
brand new
(Poster note: and here's where the plot thickens, timeline wise)
Acura Legend
and drove to the racetrack.
According to car website Edmunds.com, the Acura Legend was first produced in 1989 as the 1990 model. The buk.net website timeline notes that he bought such a car in 1989.
This book is not from 1969.
Am I missing something?
EDIT: Perhaps I should have posted in "Is it real" but being that this is not signed....