defining the magic
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Defining the magic
a good poem is like a cold beer
when you need it,
a good poem is like a hot turkey
sandwich when you’re
hungry,
a good poem is a gun when
the mob corners you,
a good poem is something that
allows you to walk through the streets of
death,
a good poem can make death melt like
hot butter,
a good poem can frame agony and
hang it on a wall,
a good poem can let your feet touch
China,
a good poem can let you shake hands
with Mozart,
a good poem can let you shoot craps
with the devil
and win,
a good poem can do almost anything,
and most important
a good poem knows when to
stop.
~ Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994)
12 years ago today...
R.I.P.
a good poem is like a cold beer
when you need it,
a good poem is like a hot turkey
sandwich when you’re
hungry,
a good poem is a gun when
the mob corners you,
a good poem is something that
allows you to walk through the streets of
death,
a good poem can make death melt like
hot butter,
a good poem can frame agony and
hang it on a wall,
a good poem can let your feet touch
China,
a good poem can let you shake hands
with Mozart,
a good poem can let you shoot craps
with the devil
and win,
a good poem can do almost anything,
and most important
a good poem knows when to
stop.
~ Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994)
12 years ago today...
R.I.P.
~~~
Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.
http://epplehausradio.blogspot.com/
pearl jam @ the astoria, london, 20/04/06
Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.
http://epplehausradio.blogspot.com/
pearl jam @ the astoria, london, 20/04/06
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What if you're a Chinese woman
in small, bound feet,
small, tight shoes?
Where's the romance of poetry then?
In Canadian dreams of proud Ms. Bigfoot, free?
a bird's poem is hunger
for a sky never to stop
until a land of unhungry men.
a good poem is a gun
that knows it's pointing
at two ends.
a good poem knows
if it can melt death like hot butter
it cannot end itself.
wait...
so you're basically calling buk a drunk idiot?
haha, you're right...
he WAS a drunk idiot... but the most poetic of them all
Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.
http://epplehausradio.blogspot.com/
pearl jam @ the astoria, london, 20/04/06
a good poem knows about the transitoriness of logic
and spits in its
face.
Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.
http://epplehausradio.blogspot.com/
pearl jam @ the astoria, london, 20/04/06
I'm just back from the pub, five pints in an hour: giveuzz a chance, I'm catching up.
A good poem cannot know itself.
a good poem does not need to know
what can be
felt.
a good poem is always that self-righteous unkle
who is never invited for christmas dinner
and proud of
it.
Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.
http://epplehausradio.blogspot.com/
pearl jam @ the astoria, london, 20/04/06
I concur!
phew, i'm glad you do!
i'm a bit too drunk myself for a battle of wits in another than my native tongue...
but everyone feel free to continue defining the magic that is a good poem...
.
Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.
http://epplehausradio.blogspot.com/
pearl jam @ the astoria, london, 20/04/06