Sunday, I am eating a
grapefruit, church is over at the Russian
Orthadox to the
west.
she is dark
of Eastern descent,
large brown eyes look up from the Bible
then down. a small red and black
Bible, and as she reads
her legs keep moving, moving,
she is doing a slow rythmic dance
reading the Bible. . .
long gold earrings;
2 gold bracelets on each arm,
and it's a mini-suit, I suppose,
the cloth hugs her body,
the lightest of tans is that cloth,
she twists this way and that,
long yellow legs warm in the sun. . .
there is no escaping her being
there is no desire to. . .
my radio is playing symphonic music
that she cannot hear
but her movements coincide exactly
to the rythms of the
symphony. . .
she is dark, she is dark
she is reading about God.
I am God.
(Charles Bukowski, 1/13/03)
9 comments:
Buk. died what ...'94 or so so the dates are like focked Toooper hepcat. Actually Im not a big poetry fan--but Buk. kept it real so to speak. .
NO collegetown beatnik-pansy----would have knocked you out in the street. Loved LFCeline's writing (cue cedarford) Before he sort of made it and was living near the street, Buk. wrote (or attempted to) little stories for sleazy magazines--Argosy ,etc some of which are amusing--like accounts of crimes, street tramping in LA...prison time. Like "Cunt, Kant and a happy home." A veritable klassic-- about armed robbery.
Ive been around his hometurf in LongBeach--the Reno Rooom ,etc. Tough. But he also lived in Ho-wood, and later inlife --after Barfly,like...had a nice pad in San Pedro. There's a couple of Buk .youtubes up. In one pretty funny one he's nearly beating some ho. The Buk. rant endeth.
Samantha Jones in Sex and the City, Season 4, #1, channeled Bukowski (or Titus for that matter) when she sized up Friar Fuck:
Samantha: I masturbated to my priest... Friar Fuck!
link.
These are the dates that the poems were published posthumously.
Like many poets he got screwed and was more famous after he croaked than when he was alive.
But you are right J. He was the real dealio.
Okay, are those nuns real nuns or movie nuns? Cause if they're real nuns the church oughtta have its head handed to it.
One of these days I am going to tell the story of the nun who sorta kinda molested me when I was in the eight grade.
I mean I don't know what it was exactly but if I knew then what I know now it would have been a whole different story.
MamaM's two gold bracelets
sit in the drawer now.
They no longer fit
over her hands
the way they used to
and silver looks better
with her face and hair.
She could turn them in
for cash
but leaves them there
in the drawer
waiting and hoping
a dancing granddaughter
will someday ask
if she may wear them
out of the house.
Non sequitur time. Mama Meth having a flashback of her theatre days ,and like...Annie! the musical--Tomorrow,tomorrow...
Another ho, Annie was. Just waiting for Daddy Warbucks
I liked that MamaM.
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