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[Cynthia]

Hello My name is Cynthia this is my first posting and well I decided it was time to learn a poem, Ummmm well I met a guy from match.com yesterday a bit of a boozer to say the least. It was an interesting date , we sat at three different bars. I loved it! Soooooo He recited a poem on style and living with style. I would ask him about the poem but we sat at a stoop to discuss his poodle that he ..... we parted ways rather abrutly ( giggles) I must say while it was fun, I could never do that dailyit was this guys life..... hmmmmmm LIFESTYLE, Go figure it brought me to you!


New to bukowski.net , With your help I will spread the words. AHHHHHHHH can anyone help me out with this? I will make all of you proud!!!


Sincerely
Cynthia

 

[adrian]

And hello to you Cynthia. Sounds an interesting date to say the least, although anyone that lives like that daily might be taking it to the literal, a bit too much. Glad you got onto Bukowski, let him take away some of your fluffy ideas and ideals ;)

 

[mjp]

Ha - well, that match.com guy sounds like a thousand pound tool, but Bukowski wrote a lot of poems about style, so that one may be hard to pin down.

 

[roni]

I'd shoot for the poem 'style' in 'Mockingbird wish me luck' on p. 156

 

[bospress.net]

Style is the answer to everything.
Fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous day.
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without style.
To do a dangerous thing with style, is what I call art.
Bullfighting can be an art.
Boxing can be an art.
Loving can be an art.
Opening a can of sardines can be an art.
Not many have style.
Not many can keep style.
I have seen dogs with more style than men.
Although not many dogs have style.
Cats have it with abundance.

When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun, that was style.
For sometimes people give you style.
Joan of Arc had style.
John the Baptist.
Jesus.
Socrates.
Caesar.
García Lorca.
I have met men in jail with style.
I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.
Style is a difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water, or you, walking
out of the bathroom without seeing me.

 

[rjwink666]

an alcoholic with a poodle, man if he can pull there is hope for me yet