I have a pretty good idea what this poem is about but just to make sure can anybody tell me what you might think it be about?
girl in a miniskirt reading the bible outside my window (1 Viewer)
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I have a pretty good idea what this poem is about but just to make sure can anybody tell me what you might think it be about?
Father Luke
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hi.
hi. long time listener, first time caller.
can you tell us what the numbers mean?
thanks.
i'll take my answer on the air.
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hi. long time listener, first time caller.
can you tell us what the numbers mean?
thanks.
i'll take my answer on the air.
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number6horse
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I was wondering that myself.....
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MULLINAX
Could it be about a girl in a miniskirt reading the bible outside someone's window?
Just a wild guess.
I yam what I yam and that's what I yam!
mjp
Founding member
Well, they would appear to be line numbers, yeah? Why you would stick numbers on the lines is another question. Maybe that's how they do it in the big city.
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
I think it deals with the crossroads where the spirit meets with the beast and you can guess who is the beast. Then really, you could say it was how he'd like to do her and he'd tell her what he had to to get her.
Or maybe he was just having a bad reaction to the grapefruit. The grapefruit symbolizing a conflict in his life or represents his acne vulgaris. It was a warm day- don't you get it it's easy. DUH!:rolleyes:
yep. that"d be my guess to. no hidden bullshit here.
The numbers just came from a website that had the text from the book and I guess they typed the numbers along with it whoever did it any how. The only real problem I have with the whole poem is the "I am God" part. I think its pretty much about him wanting to desire the girl but those last 3 words are what get me. Sorry for not specifying what the main problem was with the poem!
Father Luke
Founding member
ahhh.
hellpopeyesdemon said:
70. So, if he wants, desires the woman, do you think he wishes she desires him?
61. Think of her reading about God, wondering about God.
07. Where is the reciprocation for her in this life?
43. So. Bukowski desires the woman.
16. The Woman Desires God.
70. God does not reciprocate.
52. The Woman does not reciprocate.
34. God does not know the woman is there.
25. The Woman does not know Bukowski is there.
29. Bukowski is God.
something to think about
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
I was kinda' kidding the other day. But see what Father Luke presents here....that's why his name is green. That is is pure geometry.
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
We are God,
I do not know when the poem was written
But being god was a very hip thing to say among
the hippies in the late sixties.
Back to the earth, being part of it all,
being God, being one.
I do not know when the poem was written
But being god was a very hip thing to say among
the hippies in the late sixties.
Back to the earth, being part of it all,
being God, being one.
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
I suppose you had to tune in
turn on and drop out
to hear it.
turn on and drop out
to hear it.
HarryC13
RIP
Quite brilliant, Father Luke. There was some plaque in my grandmother's house when I was a little kid that called Jesus "the unseen guest at every meal, the unseen listener to every conversation." So Bukowski in the poem is kinda like Jesus. (I always found that concept to be pretty creepy, by the way, somebody spying on me, even if it was a deity.)
Being the huge fan of literary criticism that I am, however, I suspect something deeper than this. What if:
14. Bukowski is going through a period of drink-induced dyslexia (lysdexia) in the poem.
93. The namow does ton kwno Buwoksik is there.
33. Kowbuski is Dog.
HIKE. Dog si nam's bets freind.
There, now, that makes sense. Thank you.
Father Luke
Founding member
My numbers all add up to seven
Bukowski's number adds up to eleven
7 comes 11
all good children go to heaven...
Bukowski's number adds up to eleven
7 comes 11
all good children go to heaven...
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Harry; Love is a dog from Bukowski dot net.
Hi all!
What collection was this poem published in? Its my favourite.
What collection was this poem published in? Its my favourite.
HarryC13
RIP
You have good taste, it's a fine poem. Appears in Mockingbird Wish Me Luck and you can also find it collected in Run with the Hunted.
By the way, mjp has done a phenomenal job with the works database on this site. You can find out where almost anything Bukowski wrote was published there. Check it out, and welcome!
By the way, mjp has done a phenomenal job with the works database on this site. You can find out where almost anything Bukowski wrote was published there. Check it out, and welcome!
the only good poet
One retreat after another without peace.
i believe he did. he appeared to like the title "Human, all too human."
Nietzsche.
Nietzsche.
yes, Nietzsche.
He read him at several times and also writes about it. Since the 3 books of letters by BSP have an index, it's quite easy to find his mentionings of Nietzsche.
He also liked Schopenhauer.
Read 'a funny guy' in 'You get so alone'!
I once held an address at the German Schopenhauer-Society about parallels between Buk, Nietzsche and Schop. They liked it.
