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line breaks properly created give the mind time to go to the bathroom or the kitchen to get another drink...

I do not know the dates for Write magazine. Where might I be able to read these poems, including those published when he was 26. Thanks for the information thus far.

have any poems survived from pre age 25?

i like bukowski because he is one of the few modern writers I read read when sober....

which one is Bukowski?

very similar experience. after a few months I appreciate that his work frees me from cult of the boring poem which dominates the scene from the college reviews to the little magazines to the poetry forums or wherevever three without talent or sense gather to read to each other or buy each...

Crumb and Bukowski in the same room is difficult to imagine: but SEX probably entered the conversation at some point. In a life as well studied at that of Bukowski there must I should think be some record of Crumb and Bukowski together. Unaware of any letters published they may have...

Crumb claimed to have had a childhood sexual attraction to Bugs Bunny. Is there a thread on the collaboration with Crumb? (he wrote not caring that it is totally stupid and off topic)...

this reminds me of his comment that if it was a job we were paid to do we would hate making love, or something...not to worry, the control freaks are too too thick to end smoking by making it a job we are paid to do...w

I think it is ALL a continuation of the first sentence he wrote and I like the entire sentence, at no point in the sentence have I yet been bored.

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leaves off a small belch and stares into dirty ashtray....

most recent reading has been Titus Andronicus, Q1, FF, Critical Essays About Titus Andronicus, A Hundreth Sundrie Flowers, still working on Shakespeare Identified, vol 1, and Hidden Allusions in Shakespeare, but, since I finally tripped on Bukowski a few months ago, I notice that most of my...

ha ha ha one of the many strong points of CB is his level gaze at the phonies and fools who mill around in the gas cloud of american 'poetry'...nothing has changed.

Not an expert on Bukowski but I believe his thinking was more complex than it is often made to appear regarding poetic 'form'. Certainly, in common with all modernists he avoided 'metric' verse, but his lyricism can only be explained by metric subtlty. His inventive comic/tragic genius found...