Measurements From the Creation Coffin: (1 Viewer)

mjp

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This is from 1972, vol. 1, no. 1 of Bachy, a perfect bound mag/book put out by Papa Bach bookstore in Los Angeles. Bachy was short lived, and this poem has not been published anywhere else.

Measurements From the Creation Coffin:

the ability to suffer and endure -
that's nobility, friend -
the ability to suffer and endure
for an idea, a feeling, a way -
the ability to suffer and endure
that's art, my friend -
the ability to suffer and endure
when a love ends -
that's hell, old friend...
nobility, art and hell,
let's talk about art a while:

promulgation of my attitudes
like stilts walking centuries
beeswax for brains
destiny is my crippled daughter
look here, it's difficult
me against them
with them
Kafka let me in
Hemingway beware
Hegel you're funny
Cervantes you mean you wrote that
novel at the age of
80?

writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the main part for paper

jesus christ would have been
a duller writer than Theodore Dreiser
jesus christ would have been a
very lousy writer

the beard and hair fit
but he was too good at
conversations and
miracles

a good human being may save the world
so the bastards can keep creating art
if you read this after I am long dead
it means I made it
and
it's your turn now
to misuse your wife
abuse your children
love thyself
live off the funds of others
dislike all art created before and
during your time,
and dislike or even hate humanity
singly or en mass

bastard, if you read this after I am long dead
shove me out of here. I
probably wasn't that
good.
 
cool, thanks, though I should confess I have a copy of all the Bachy issues :eek: In fact, mjp, if you're planning on buying old zines on ebay or something, drop me a line before if you want to have a preview of the real content. It might help you to discard some bad stuff B pub. now and then!
 
Thanks. I don't usually buy magazines. I can't remember why I picked this up. It came with another issue that has a Linda King poem about Bukowski.
 
well, actually I don't have the Bachy zines -or any other, for that matter- I only have copies of the poems B published there.
 
This is apropos of nothing, but I was wondering - how are all of your copies arranged? Are they in a file cabinet, a cardboard box, a gunny sack?? I picture you wading into a storage room full of paper in huge piles and coming out with these things...heh.
 
Thanks. I don't usually buy magazines. I can't remember why I picked this up. It came with another issue that has a Linda King poem about Bukowski.

where is this linda king poem?
we wanna read!!
in other hand, in born into this we can see 2 lindas: king and lee, but when they were young... I prefer lee, only the young lee...
do you?
 
where is this linda king poem?
we wanna read!!

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This one showed up in The People Look Like Flowers At Last. Seems like they might have put that collection together from forum posts here. ;)

Oh, wait, no, that was a previously undiscovered box of magazines in the rafters of the garage. Sure.
 

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