With all due respect Ponder, calling someone a piece of shit child-fucker doesn't necessarily mean you hate them. ;)
Not me, I HATE the bastard
But I won't say anything more about KING MICHAEL.
Me niether....
Except this (ha): I wouldn't have wiped my ass with him while he was alive, and I refuse to let his death change that opinion. If I'm ever in the vicinity of his grave I will go out of my way to piss on it.
I'll join you.
In regards to the poem, The Genius Of The Crowd.
I've spent the last 1/2 hour or so re-reading this poem, really thinking about what Bukowski was trying to say,what it means and how it applies to me personally. I think Bukowski was trying to show the absurdity and two-facedness of people in general. Which all in all is true. In reading it it is easy to say,"well, that is not me, that is not who
I am. But there is probably a bit of everyone in there somewhere, even Bukowski himself. I know I'm in there.
I used to be a "New Ager", I used to think I had some kind of
handle on reality that other people didn't have, and for a little part of my life it made me more pompus than I had any right to be. I got knocked off my pedestal quick and swift by a fellow follower who was more
in tune to the universe than I was. I don't hold resentment towards her any longer, I'm glad for what happened in retrospect. I still hope she rots though.
I don't preach wisdom to anyone. I don't preach peace because I don't believe it is possible, other than trying to be peaceful within one's self, and I know there is allot of me that is not peaceful. I do have a general hatred in me, and I am glad to be wise enough to know it is there and not deny it. It is mine to deal with, discover, erase, embrace. I don't do violence to others, though I have smashed a plate or two in my time.
I think Bukowski's final lines of that poem convey perfection and permanence within the natural world, and in saying so he is showing the natural order/necessity of hatred itself(God, that sounded new-agey:eek:))
Is it wrong for me to hate MJ, and his ilk? Maybe. But I do. I can not understand it, and maybe that is where my hatred for child molesters comes from;
my own lack of understanding. But people that hurt children only serve to perpetuate the violence and hatred in the world.Children are here to be protected and loved, and in my own life I have done my best to do that. He claimed to love the children, but he could not protect them from his own self. So HE is well included in the poem too. His hypocrisy and those of the people that will stand up and ovate him at next years Emmy Awards would do well to read that poem as well. CRB:)