was
this old
friend of mine
who gave me my first
and only award for poetry.
it was
near 3 in the morning
and we
were drunk
on cheap vodka,
complaining
how we couldn’t
get published...
This is no ordinary dark.
In my day it took heavy machinery
to drill through it:
ellipsoidal spotlights
when Fresnel bits broke,
and mixing-bowl-shaped
reflector floods—
scoops, so-called—
to shovel out the dark
and...
they mess with your head
she said
these tiny little fruit flies
i couldn’t argue
we were well into the second bottle
of good red
& the bastards wouldn’t let...
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...
was
this old
friend of mine
who gave me my first
and only award for poetry.
it was
near 3 in the morning
and we
were drunk
on cheap vodka,
complaining
how we couldn’t
get published...
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...
This is no ordinary dark.
In my day it took heavy machinery
to drill through it:
ellipsoidal spotlights
when Fresnel bits broke,
and mixing-bowl-shaped
reflector floods—
scoops, so-called—
to shovel out the dark
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...
was
this old
friend of mine
who gave me my first
and only award for poetry.
it was
near 3 in the morning
and we
were drunk
on cheap vodka,
complaining
how we couldn’t
get published...
was
this old
friend of mine
who gave me my first
and only award for poetry.
it was
near 3 in the morning
and we
were drunk
on cheap vodka,
complaining
how we couldn’t
get published...
This is no ordinary dark.
In my day it took heavy machinery
to drill through it:
ellipsoidal spotlights
when Fresnel bits broke,
and mixing-bowl-shaped
reflector floods—
scoops, so-called—
to shovel out the dark
and...
they mess with your head
she said
these tiny little fruit flies
i couldn’t argue
we were well into the second bottle
of good red
& the bastards wouldn’t let...
was
this old
friend of mine
who gave me my first
and only award for poetry.
it was
near 3 in the morning
and we
were drunk
on cheap vodka,
complaining
how we couldn’t
get published...
was
this old
friend of mine
who gave me my first
and only award for poetry.
it was
near 3 in the morning
and we
were drunk
on cheap vodka,
complaining
how we couldn’t
get published...
This is no ordinary dark.
In my day it took heavy machinery
to drill through it:
ellipsoidal spotlights
when Fresnel bits broke,
and mixing-bowl-shaped
reflector floods—
scoops, so-called—
to shovel out the dark
and...
they mess with your head
she said
these tiny little fruit flies
i couldn’t argue
we were well into the second bottle
of good red
& the bastards wouldn’t let...
