Bukowski is quite literary once one gets past
the public perception, you know? His persona?
His work is quite moving.
I don't really know why I'm always so surprised by
the prejudice held against him by the academia.
The prejudice is there. His work is too. And
they meet...
it has been rolling around in my head for years.
i never thought to ask which one it was.
now? you've named it for me.
mucho thank again.
(touches finger to hat brim)
no, neither can i. it's a great poem.
he is reminiscing about this, and that, all the drive,
all the ideals the kid had, and the kid was him.
then the killer line:
What ever happened to that kid?
it's a fucking killer piece.
Websters Dictionary definition:
hank solo: (n.) the bukowski concordance
just amazing.
While I'm at it...
I've been wanting to find the poem where he is
sitting in a bar, looking at himself in the mirror,
thinking back about things, and wondering:
"what happened to that...
One year I had 32 w-2 forms.
Last year I was driving an 18 wheeler. I was
everywhere in the country for fifteen minutes.
I saw a driver wearing a shirt:
Drive
Sleep
Drive Sleep
Drive Sleep Drive
Sleep
that was about it.
Truck Drivers make surprisingly good money.
I mean...
I suppose that if we came up with $250 and sent it to them saying we would like to adopt it, they wouldn't turn it away.
Sort of like a gesture.
So, not a real adoption, but more like where you get a handwritten letter from a baby in Africa telling you what it did at the saw mill that day...
There are some real cool things in there.
An Informal Talk with Che Guevara in New York
The Story Behind the My Lai Incident
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Cesar Chavez
Kurt Vonnegut
Thank you masked man!
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