What about Christmas?
- Thread starter Rob.
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Not a story but a rather brutally minimalist poem written on Christmas:
what?
sleepy now
at 4 a.m.
I hear the siren
of a white
ambulance,
then a dog
barks
once
in this tough-boy
Christmas
morning.
I love this for it's Scrooge like sparseness, its lack of sentimentality; you can clearly picture Bukowski sitting in a lone room typing this on his typewriter smoking a cigarette, and possibly polish off a bottle of vino and fall into bed.
Love it.
what?
sleepy now
at 4 a.m.
I hear the siren
of a white
ambulance,
then a dog
barks
once
in this tough-boy
Christmas
morning.
I love this for it's Scrooge like sparseness, its lack of sentimentality; you can clearly picture Bukowski sitting in a lone room typing this on his typewriter smoking a cigarette, and possibly polish off a bottle of vino and fall into bed.
Love it.
There are New Year's Greetings...
Digney in Burnaby
donkeys live a long time
I remember asking this question last year. One answer was "Merry Christmas" from Mockingbird, a poem about going to watch a Christmas pageant that included his daughter Marina.
And there was a story offered up at Christmastime in Open City and collected in Note. Not really a Christmas story but a line near the end reads "the meek shall inherit the earth". Was that Christmas, or the sermon on the mount?
And there was a story offered up at Christmastime in Open City and collected in Note. Not really a Christmas story but a line near the end reads "the meek shall inherit the earth". Was that Christmas, or the sermon on the mount?
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That is from the sermon on the mount.
reasonknot
Founding member
and the meek shall inherit the earth...
I thought Geddy Lee said that.
I thought Geddy Lee said that.
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
One story was about a guy in jail who had written Buk a letter at Christmas time.
I can not remember in which book ,at the moment (unfortunately).
But the guy had told him that someone in the next cell did not like Buk' s punctuation.
Something like that. . .
Anyhow,Buk replied and typed the shape of a christmas tree with comas, and asked him if he'd like that!
I can not remember in which book ,at the moment (unfortunately).
But the guy had told him that someone in the next cell did not like Buk' s punctuation.
Something like that. . .
Anyhow,Buk replied and typed the shape of a christmas tree with comas, and asked him if he'd like that!
Digney in Burnaby
donkeys live a long time
I think you're talking about the poem "Christmas poem to a man in jail" from What Matters Most.
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
Yeah Digney, that's the one, p.115
I tried placing the comas in the shape of the tree and it just won't work for me.
I tried placing the comas in the shape of the tree and it just won't work for me.
There might be mention of X-Mas in The Day it Snowed in L.A. Not sure; I don't own it and I can't seem to find it in any other publication (although I'll swear I've read it somewhere).
wow you took me back to high school with that one - first concert i ever saw...:o