Thanks a lot for your comments everyone!
Erik, the similarities I saw were that the Tao often mentions letting things go their own way without interference.
I guess what surprised me most about this poem is that it does seem to contradict with a lot of Bukowski's other work. He wrote often...
I started reading "Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way" today and only got through the first poem before I had to hurry to work. The poem was "So You Want To Be A Writer" I've also been turned on to reading the Tao for a bit now and noticed some striking similarities...
mine was Women...It was given to me by my brother before I left San Francisco. I read it on the bus ride back to Texas. I had lived a fairly sheltered life up until that point. I had never read anything like it before. I kept looking around to make sure that no one was reading over my...
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