Poetry


Clean Examples of Charles Bukowski's work

splash
the illusion is that you are simply
reading this poem.
the reality is that this is
more than a
poem.
this is a beggar's knife.
this is a tulip.
this is a soldier marching
through Madrid.
this is you on your
death bed.
this is Li Po laughing
underground.
this is not a god-damned
poem.
this is a horse asleep.
a butterfly in
your brain.
this is the devil's
circus.
you are not reading this
on a page.
the page is reading
you.
feel it?
it's like a cobra. it's a hungry eagle circling the room.

this is not a poem. poems are dull,
they make you sleep.

these words force you
to a new
madness.

you have been blessed, you have been pushed into a
blinding area of
light.

the elephant dreams
with you
now.
the curve of space
bends and
laughs.

you can die now.
you can die now as
people were meant to
die:
great,
victorious,
hearing the music,
being the music,
roaring,
roaring,
roaring.




I Met A Genius

I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
as he sat beside me
and as the train
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it's not pretty

it was the first time I'd
realized
that.



16-bit Intel 8088 chip

with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can't read each other's
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can't use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.



true

one of Lorca’s best lines
is,
“agony, always
agony . . .”

think of this when you
kill a
cockroach or
pick up a razor to
shave

or awaken in the morning
to
face the
sun.


bluebird
 
there's a bluebird in my heart that 
wants to get out 
but I'm too tough for him, 
I say, stay in there, I'm not going 
to let anybody see you. 
there's a bluebird in my heart that 
wants to get out 
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale 
cigarette smoke 
and the whores and the bartenders 
and the grocery clerks 
never know that 
he's 
in there.  
 
there's a bluebird in my heart that 
wants to get out 
but I'm too tough for him, I say, 
stay down, do you want to mess 
me up? 
you want to screw up the 
works? 
you want to blow my book sales in 
Europe? 
there's a bluebird in my heart that 
wants to get out 
but I'm too clever, I only let him out 
at night sometimes 
when everybody's asleep. 
I say, I know that you're there, 
so don't be 
sad. 
then I put him back, 
but he's singing a little 
in there, I haven't quite let him 
die 
and we sleep together like 
that 
with our 
secret pact 
and it's nice enough to 
make a man 
weep, but I don't
weep, do 
you?



rain or shine

the vultures at the zoo 
(all three of the) 
sit very quietly in their 
caged tree 
and below 
on the ground 
are chunks of rotten meat. 
the vultures are over-full. 
our taxes have fed them 
well.  
 
we move on to the next 
cage. 
a man is in there 
sitting on the ground 
eating 
his own [crap]. 
i recognize him as 
our former mailman. 
his favorite expression  
had been: 
have a beautiful day."  
 
that day i did.


what’s the use of a title?

They don’t make it  
the beautiful die in flame-  
sucide pills,rat poison,rope what-  
ever...  
they rip their arms off,  
throw themselves out of windows,  
they pull their eyes out of the sockets,  
reject love  
reject hate  
reject,reject.   
 
they don’t make it  
the beautiful can't endure,  
they are butterflies  
they are doves  
they are sparrows,  
they dont make it.   
 
one tall shot of flame  
while the old men play checkers in the park  
one flame, one good flame  
while the old men play checkers in the park  
in the sun.   
 
the beautiful are found in the edge of a room  
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence  
and we can never understand why they  
left, they were so  
beautiful.   
 
they don’t make it,  
the beautiful die young  
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.   
 
 
lovely and brilliant: life and suicide and death  
as the old men play checkers in the sun  
in the park.



don’t forget

there is always somebody or something
waiting for you,
something stronger, more intelligent,
more evil, more kind, more durable,
something bigger, something better,
something worse, something with
eyes like the tiger, jaws like the shark,
something crazier than crazy,
saner than sane,
there is always something or somebody
waiting for you
as you put on your shoes
or as you sleep
or as you empty a garbage can
or pet your cat
or brush your teeth
or celebrate a holiday
there is always somebody or something
waiting for you.

keep this fully in mind
so that when it happens
you will be as ready as possible.

meanwhile, a good day to
you
if you are still there.
I think that I am---
I just burnt my fingers on
this
cigarette.


be kind

we are always asked
to understand the other person's
viewpoint
no matter how
out-dated
foolish or
obnoxious.
one is asked
to view
their total error
their life-waste
with
kindliness,
especially if they are
aged.
but age is the total of
our doing.
they have aged
badly
because they have
lived
out of focus,
they have refused to
see.
not their fault?
whose fault?
mine?
I am asked to hide
my viewpoint
from them
for fear of their
fear.
age is no crime
but the shame
of a deliberately
wasted
life
among so many
deliberately
wasted
lives
is.



almost competition

the higher you climb
the greater the pressure.

those who manage to
endure
learn
that the distance
between the
top and the
bottom
is
obscenely
great.

and those who
succeed
know
this secret:
there isn't
one.



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