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sway with me, everything sad - madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure the sky; sway with me, sad things - fingers split on a forge old age like breakfast shell used books, used people used flowers, used love I need you I need you I need you: it...

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MJP: First thank you for this site that allows people access to Bukowski readers; I am sure it is a labor of love. As to what I said about people who seem to like Bukowski for some different reasons than I do, well that only applies to you if it applies to you. If not, please don't be insulted...

Charles Bukowski was a pretty prolific writer, and because of this, he wrote a lot of bad stuff. You know, just rambling. Especially the stuff that was published posthumously. But, his good poetry is unmatched for its insights and of course the ways he told his stories. I really hate here, the...

I think the best thing to do would be to show him some reverence. Bukowski wasn't an asshole, and he didn't like assholes. So, go there, think about him, sit, and say thank you for his poetry and other writing. This is what I did and I met him and corresponded with him.

Hello Forum: I am the person who had the tape Bukowski at Bellevue in reel to reel form and sold it to John Martin at Black Sparrow. I was involved in Bukowski's readings at Western Washington State College and Bellevue Community College in 1970 when I was an undergraduate editor of Jeopardy...