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someone said I sounded like bukowski
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someone said I sounded like bukowski |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass 
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someone said I sounded like bukowski. I didn’t hit them because that felt like something bukowski might do. hit them for saying he sounded like himself I mean. more likely he would write something rude about them and publish it so they would always know and could never hit back. I am ashamed of him for that. and for some other things. but not all. not all. |
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Anniepimm Senior Member
since 2008-12-26
Posts 550England |
I have never heard of bukowski please excuse my English ignorance, so i have nothing to compare it to, but i did like the poem..  |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
He's a American beat poet, who makes a big show of being a bum -- and who writes pretty much the way I did up there, bald crude statements that carry a mixture of both hostility and introspection, and of, well, making a big show of being a bum. Somehow he got famous -- not bad for a derelict. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
brings back a fond memory-- someone once said the same about me, but I took it as a compliment. My reply would probably be disallowed today, but I do enjoy the memory of the easy exchange. Thanks for the memory prompt. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
One could do much worse than sounding like Bukowski! Under the crud there's a lot of skill, and a true sensitivity to the realities of life. In the right mood, I enjoy him very much, and I've learned some valuable writing lessons from him too. As I told Raph Giuffrida once, some poets are dancers and some are boxers....but a boxer can be stunningly graceful, and we dancers -- well, some of us can hit damn hard..... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Ratleader - bukowski caught my eye, but your words are better... BC |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
*chuckle* I got two left feet and a mean right hook! dere oughtta be some kinda organization, I tell ya!  *laughing* lawsy |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
LOL that! There IS an organization.....they call it PiP! ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Bukowski wrote: "Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." *smile* My daughter liked that so much it's her signature now. She overheard me quoting that and just...went off: ("What was that? Who wrote that? Do we have that? GIMME...") She's a flag-waving little freakazoid, she is. I'm so proud. Really. |
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steavenr Member Elite
since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058 |
LOL, so let me see...the moral of the story is that there is a future in dereliction, right? Could I have your autograph? |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. Ed, Drop the last line John . |
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Chanson Senior Member
since 2000-08-19
Posts 1559Up Creek w/Out Paddle |
I LOVE it! |
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Marcia Miller-Twiford Junior Member
since 2008-06-06
Posts 26California, USA |
Now I'd know you if we met on the street. Nice to see you here. |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
However you might sound, you're Ed... and above giving in to the lure of cheap shots, physical or verbal. *S* But... oh, man... you can write!!! |
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