That's beautiful.
Of course it wasn't published as a curiosity. And of course it wasn't intended as a humiliation.
But I can see it. I can see the humiliation he felt.
For one thing, that is the first and last thing you see in the magazine. Quite a dubious honor. Especially for a first piece...
54 minutes 39 seconds. Polka music.
I don't think it was intentionally edited in, however.
Interestingly enough I do see the lines now.
What a great time.
What a great video.
Kind of sort of.
maybe from his point of view it was "of " the magazine, but not " in " it.
The end pages being the front end, and the back end.
I can see his disgruntlement, sure.
Do you have Bukowski's actual complaint somewhere? It'd
be fun to read in perspective.
Black Swan stopped by my place. She and I have been playing canasta.
She'll get around to mailing the rest of them, but I'm beating her 25 to 1,
so she is desperate to even the score. It's all my fault.
Clichés were first not clichés;
what's closest to the heart is the most general.
Let me know if the film shows
differently for you the second time around.
I'll read about Betty's funeral.
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Mazel Tov,
Father Luke