Season 5 episode, "Sentenced to Life", and there Dylan is, at home, reading "The Last Night of the Earth" poems in full view. This is in the very beginning, while him and Andrea are having 'coffee talk'. SHE is the one who suggests he read the book, calling Bukowski, "the renegade poet of our times".
Dylan begins to read aloud. "There's a bluebird in my heart. He wants to get out, but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke. All the whores and bartenders and grocery clerks ... never know that he's in there."
He puts down the book and says, "Think HIS friends ever tried to put him into rehab?"
Andrea: "Well, if they didn't, maybe they should have."
Dy: "I don't know. You really think he could write that kind of stuff to get rid of all his demons?"
A: "Who knows?" (both sip coffee)
Dy: "William Blake. ... Blake says the road to excess leads right to the gates of the Palace of Wisdom."
And a knock at the door ends their conversation there.
And:
There's an episode in the beginning of Season 7 (7.07, 184) where Mark Reese, a new supporting character, presents Kelly with two books meant to represent his 'two different sides'. In his attempt to woo her, he proclaims that he's both a "straight shooter" and a "mad man". "Spoon River Anthology", by Edgar Lee Masters, is meant to illustrate the former, while Charles Bukowski's "Betting On The Muse" suggests the latter. Kelly is immediately taken aback and remarks that she "used to date someone who loves Bukowski". "Brandon?", Mark asks. "No, someone else. But Brandon IS a Masters fan".
And someone said:
on the forums over at bukowski.net, there's been some debate over the mythology of the McKay-Bukowski connection since March. At the time, I didn't have the heart/motivation to sign-up simply to tell them, but I do hope they find this post someday :)
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