Targets No. 15, 1963

[mjp]

Four of these are still uncollected: I Knew What The Tigers Said, Letter To A Small And Kindly Princess, Answer To Some Sacramento Letters: and Stop Drinking, Drinking, Drinking...

 

[Andreas]

The Days Run Away... was edited by Dorbin, who culled the poems from the littles and printed them verbatim.

I thought of ships, of armies, hanging on...must have been an exception.
2 flies however (collected in Play The Piano...) is identically equal to the Targets version.

 

[mjp]

That one does have some familiar fingerprints on it, doesn't it.

 

[Andreas]

Yes, it does. You called it poetry for dummies or so. Inventing new lines to explain something that doesn't need any explanation.

 

[mjp]

Another reference to "2 wives" in Stop Drinking, Drinking, Drinking...

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Interesting. Of course, he could have been viewing Jane as a sort of common-law wife and using poetic license. Then again, you knew that, but we can't assume that everyone else does. :rolleyes:

 

[mjp]

Yeah, I can see him calling her his wife even if she wasn't.

But then he also mentions being "twice divorced" in 1960...

https://bukowskiforum.com/threads/the-birds-gallows-1959.3485/
https://bukowskiforum.com/index.php?threads/twice-divorced-by-1960.4884/
https://bukowskiforum.com/threads/1-500-pieces-of-ass-and-2-wives-by-1966.4887/

Leave it to a poet to keep you guessing.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Leave it to a poet to keep you guessing.

If they don't I avoid them.