mjp
Founding member
You said "it's a surprisingly good poem," period. Well, not period, exactly, a winkie face came where I suppose the period should have been. You didn't qualify that with "pre-1958 published" poetry. As an overall statement, "it's a surprisingly good poem" is very much debatable.
What isn't debatable is that the poem makes sense if you replace the word "dog" with "Bukowski." It does not. Not in English anyway.
The way the old Bukowski walked
with clotted, tired fur
down nobody's alley
being nobody's Bukowski...
Huh?
Perhaps you meant something else. But I was responding to what you typed, not what you might have been thinking.
What isn't debatable is that the poem makes sense if you replace the word "dog" with "Bukowski." It does not. Not in English anyway.
The way the old Bukowski walked
with clotted, tired fur
down nobody's alley
being nobody's Bukowski...
Huh?
Perhaps you meant something else. But I was responding to what you typed, not what you might have been thinking.