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Elissa
Well, I kinda feel like the ones who come on forums asking can you help me fill in the answers for my report I am doing on so-and-so...because before this week, I didn't know who Charles Bukowski was. I wanted to find out because I am a Jewel fan (you know the chick singer from Alaska) and on her new album, "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland" there is a song called "Long Slow Slide", basically about loneliness...anyway there's a line that (ever the name-dropper) Jewel wrote: ...while Bukowski's widow haunts each empty seat on the ferris wheel, ghoulish lovers collide in a collage of kisses that they steal... So I wanted to know A. who is Bukowski, B. did he have a widow, and C. well, no C. So, I got on and did some searching, found some excerpts of some poems (LOVED them) and then came here. I did find out here, that he did have a widow at the time of his death. When I began reading, it seemed to me he was not the marrying kind, so was secretly wondering what Jewel was talking about... then I read he did marry. Jewel does tend to bend the meanings of words (bless her heart, she once used consoled and meant consulted) and here is describing a widow as if the widow were the ghost, anyway, she has a way with words, just sometimes makes them fit HER meanings...I do have some change (two cents to be exact) to add to the topic of poet vs. songwriter, poem vs. lyrics...I believe that songwriters CAN be poets, and good songwriters ARE poets. No, you can't put every poem to music, and you can't read all lyrics as poetry (who would want to), but they are related...they both need a brain, a pen, and occasionally a dictionary...I hope I gave you some laughs, and a little bit of useless information, and would love to return to this thread and find some of your quips, anecdotes, and stories, but please keep all tongue-lashings to yourself.
