HenryChinaski
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yeah, I'd like to see more as well. i can't read it but I can sure as hell look at pictures and pretend to know what's going on.
Yes, it's probably the power of DNA, although a bit postponed. I believe Mullinax was onto something when he said:So Buk's and Frances's DNA combined produced an Aerospace Engineer? Now thats what I'm talking about.The power of DNA.
I reckon that the wish of Henry Charles Bukowski Sr. (to have one of his descendants becoming an engineer) was so strong that it finally came through.Marina is a top-flight engineer. Her grandfather wanted Buk to be an engineer
Frances Smith was known as FrancEYE. She was a poet in the Venice-Ocean Park area of Los Angeles and was a regular reader at Beyond Baroque in Venice. I saw her read there many times in the 90s. She had a little white tuft of hair on her chin which she seemed to be proud of and her poetry was (as I remember) personal and of the self-empowering kind. Her nickname I think was "The Bearded Witch of Ocean Park." She died in her late 80s around 2009. I never remember her mentioning anything about Bukowski. She made no attempt to rest on his laurels and did not seem to have ambitions of fortune and fame: she was all about her own poetry.
Not sure if this link has already been shared, if it has then please delete it:Frances Smith...
He had a will as early as BEFORE 1979. Here's from a letter to his attorney of that year:Maybe he didn't have a will?
she passed away according to wikipedia in 2009. she was 87 or so, born in 1922.Also, Frances Smith was also known as the poet FrancEYE. She is still living.
Bill wrote that in 2006, so...she passed away according to wikipedia in 2009. she was 87 or so, born in 1922.