Bukowski on poetry, craft, the 9-to-5, and “easing the monsters,” among other topics.
Dougherty: In your poems, you sometimes write about enjoying your time at the...
He lived with a pigeon,
his entire apartment was
covered in bird-shit,
he dealt good hash,
but it was a horror,
no surface was
untouched,
it didn’t seem to bother
him and...
after you've pulled out the tablecloth with
the full plates of food
and broken the windows
and rung the bells of
idiots
and have
spoken true and terrible
words
and have
chased the...
is singing now
thanksgiving 1985
on my record player
I keep playing one track
over & over—A
Star Is Born
I'm going to get
up from this
here
poem!
and
go put it on
now!
...
Our bruised bones happy,
wise in mysteries,
rid of tales,
we stretch out on rocks
in the revelation of the sun,
pick at the mud-scales on our legs
and are...
Roger said he could get me into a multimillionaire’s pool party
with Jimmy Buffet playing
alcohol
and paradise
but I don’t want to go
I’d just be daydreaming of...
Bukowski on poetry, craft, the 9-to-5, and “easing the monsters,” among other topics.
Dougherty: In your poems, you sometimes write about enjoying your time at the...
He lived with a pigeon,
his entire apartment was
covered in bird-shit,
he dealt good hash,
but it was a horror,
no surface was
untouched,
it didn’t seem to bother
him and...
Roger said he could get me into a multimillionaire’s pool party
with Jimmy Buffet playing
alcohol
and paradise
but I don’t want to go
I’d just be daydreaming of...
Bukowski on poetry, craft, the 9-to-5, and “easing the monsters,” among other topics.
Dougherty: In your poems, you sometimes write about enjoying your time at the...
He lived with a pigeon,
his entire apartment was
covered in bird-shit,
he dealt good hash,
but it was a horror,
no surface was
untouched,
it didn’t seem to bother
him and...
after you've pulled out the tablecloth with
the full plates of food
and broken the windows
and rung the bells of
idiots
and have
spoken true and terrible
words
and have
chased the...
Bukowski on poetry, craft, the 9-to-5, and “easing the monsters,” among other topics.
Dougherty: In your poems, you sometimes write about enjoying your time at the...
He lived with a pigeon,
his entire apartment was
covered in bird-shit,
he dealt good hash,
but it was a horror,
no surface was
untouched,
it didn’t seem to bother
him and...
after you've pulled out the tablecloth with
the full plates of food
and broken the windows
and rung the bells of
idiots
and have
spoken true and terrible
words
and have
chased the...
is singing now
thanksgiving 1985
on my record player
I keep playing one track
over & over—A
Star Is Born
I'm going to get
up from this
here
poem!
and
go put it on
now!
...
Bukowski on poetry, craft, the 9-to-5, and “easing the monsters,” among other topics.
Dougherty: In your poems, you sometimes write about enjoying your time at the...
He lived with a pigeon,
his entire apartment was
covered in bird-shit,
he dealt good hash,
but it was a horror,
no surface was
untouched,
it didn’t seem to bother
him and...
after you've pulled out the tablecloth with
the full plates of food
and broken the windows
and rung the bells of
idiots
and have
spoken true and terrible
words
and have
chased the...
Bukowski on poetry, craft, the 9-to-5, and “easing the monsters,” among other topics.
Dougherty: In your poems, you sometimes write about enjoying your time at the...
He lived with a pigeon,
his entire apartment was
covered in bird-shit,
he dealt good hash,
but it was a horror,
no surface was
untouched,
it didn’t seem to bother
him and...
after you've pulled out the tablecloth with
the full plates of food
and broken the windows
and rung the bells of
idiots
and have
spoken true and terrible
words
and have
chased the...
is singing now
thanksgiving 1985
on my record player
I keep playing one track
over & over—A
Star Is Born
I'm going to get
up from this
here
poem!
and
go put it on
now!
...
