Recent content by Ronnie

Disgraceful gloss: for me the song is antithetical to the poem, subverting its premise entirely. Apart from a "bluebird heart" there is no homage or connection. "I'll keep the light on in my soul / Keep a bluebird in my heart.” No, Bukowski's bird ain't getting out, ever. His is a metamorphosis...

You sound like a bad-ass motherfucker. I'd enjoy talking to you. Florida is mighty: I spent some baptismal time in North Central. Cheers.

Guess I'm in the dark. What evidence of "wholesale rape" do you refer to? Interested.

Freedom is quantified by time and time is abhorrent--I reckon that is what I meant. These fabrics we're passing through as days are all so many little jails...I do grasp what you're saying.

"Never damn can." Oh, yes. Mahler was prominent for me, or it seems that way because his symphonies were the ones that blew my gourd when I was 18 and first reading Buk, checking out classical vinyl heaps from the library, hauling them home on foot.

Thanks for the replies. Happiness means more after jail, realizing then that all of life is but a cell. Freedom may truly be overrated.

Junior Kimbrough, Do the Rump.

Hello, Second post. Persevering in this losing battle, wearing down more these days. Long time Buk reader, found him twenty years ago by chance (Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame was my first tome). Have supped with the various vintages ever since, off and on he's always been a raft I come...

Happy to be here, thanks.