G
Garret
Just recieved my copy of the poetry book "Hunger at the Moon" by Billy Childish two days ago (who I am getting more and more into each day). I found this Buk tribute poem by him on page 56-57:
hand on cock and hart
(for Charles Bukowski)
hand on cock and hart
i used my poems
like guns back then
i spoke with war
and brimstone
bludgeoning my love ones
and
enemies alike
cornered with my knife
slashing blindly
indiscriminate and raging as it
had to be
and
it was you bukowski
you bar-room bragger
you boaster of beer
full of bravado and boils
so keen for everyone to hate
you
for the school girls to run
squeeling and giggling
bukowski the movie-star
bukowski the drunk
liting up a ciggeret and puffin
like a cagney--
you teenager
and i lift me hat to you
to the buti of your lines
flashing suddenly on the page
poetry to destroy all poetry
and i honor you bukowski
fuk your 'bukowski as in puke'
you have no rite
i owned you and you was
'bukowski as in fuck'
and you gave me the word
and you were god
and i hated you like a
father
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"I read note from underground in my early 20's. A big influence was John Fante, Celine, Knut Hamnsun - Hunger. Charles Bukowskie - Early collections. Walt Whitman - people pointed me to him by comparing our work. Letters of Van Gogh."--Billy Childish: http://www.heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.3.PAINT.BILLY CHILDISH.htm
hand on cock and hart
(for Charles Bukowski)
hand on cock and hart
i used my poems
like guns back then
i spoke with war
and brimstone
bludgeoning my love ones
and
enemies alike
cornered with my knife
slashing blindly
indiscriminate and raging as it
had to be
and
it was you bukowski
you bar-room bragger
you boaster of beer
full of bravado and boils
so keen for everyone to hate
you
for the school girls to run
squeeling and giggling
bukowski the movie-star
bukowski the drunk
liting up a ciggeret and puffin
like a cagney--
you teenager
and i lift me hat to you
to the buti of your lines
flashing suddenly on the page
poetry to destroy all poetry
and i honor you bukowski
fuk your 'bukowski as in puke'
you have no rite
i owned you and you was
'bukowski as in fuck'
and you gave me the word
and you were god
and i hated you like a
father
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"I read note from underground in my early 20's. A big influence was John Fante, Celine, Knut Hamnsun - Hunger. Charles Bukowskie - Early collections. Walt Whitman - people pointed me to him by comparing our work. Letters of Van Gogh."--Billy Childish: http://www.heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.3.PAINT.BILLY CHILDISH.htm
