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Essential Bukowski: Poetry

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2019
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in my dead father’s suit

waiting also

to die.

to the whore who took my poems (#ulink_e289318a-d338-5c0c-97df-382f7427823e)

some say we should keep personal remorse from the

poem,

stay abstract, and there is some reason in this,

but jezus:

12 poems gone and I don’t keep carbons and you have

my

paintings too, my best ones; it’s stifling:

are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them?

why didn’t you take my money? they usually do

from the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner.

next time take my left arm or a fifty

but not my poems:

I’m not Shakespeare

but sometimes simply

there won’t be any more, abstract or otherwise;

there’ll always be money and whores and drunkards

down to the last bomb,

but as God said,

crossing his legs,

I see where I have made plenty of poets

but not so very much

poetry.

the loser (#ulink_727c1a29-0911-5b23-ad2f-58cf06013c16)

and the next I remembered I’m on a table,

everybody’s gone: the head of bravery

under light, scowling, flailing me down . . .

and then some toad stood there, smoking a cigar:

“Kid, you’re no fighter,” he told me,

and I got up and knocked him over a chair;

it was like a scene in a movie, and

he stayed there on his big rump and said

over and over: “Jesus, Jesus, whatsamatta wit

you?” and I got up and dressed,

the tape still on my hands, and when I got home

I tore the tape off my hands and

wrote my first poem,

and I’ve been fighting

ever since.

the best way to get famous is to run away (#ulink_07d6f08c-4d65-5f08-82a8-62bb2bfd4c99)

I found a loose cement slab outside the ice-cream store,

tossed it aside and began to dig; the earth was

soft and full of worms and soon I was in to my

waist, size 36;

a crowd gathered but stepped back before my shots

of mud,

and by the time the police came, I was in below
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