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mjp kudos - i've just browsed the offerings - been meaning to look around but... you have one strong walled castle here - coming from a digital dysfunctional the compliment may not be worthy of your 'trophy' shelf - nonetheless the awe carries the weight of a very large elephant's ass - in...

d gray i've been meaning to 'replay' "king of poets" simply for enjoyment...now i have a definite purpose as well - cannot say i recall the poem but will zero in on it... if i am unable to 'ID' the person i'll make up one (smiles)... rrat

bill you got it... thanks rrat

yawl last cd i bought: "we four" a compilation of past hits by the "ink spots" - last book read: "a haiku menagerie" by stephen addiss w/fumiko & akira yamamoto - jose how do you manage to place the accent marks in your name? i try to be correct in spelling names - who authored the...

bill nothing in the mail to date... rrat

then...we can all agree? the horse is dead - henry - the topic is interesting to me - i'd like to know more - ginsberg and i seldom resonate but...well - suffice to say i keep my mind as open as is possible for a man my age...a man having had a frontal lobotomy...(smiles) damn! i swear i...

samdusky thank you...i think - (smiles) rrat

reasonknot i don't relate to ginsberg - a bit too intellectual - he had a message as did bukowski but seems to me the geography between their writing spans a planet - history lies at times and 'time' simply measures the mood of it's readers - as far as that goes...even a stopped clock is right...

anyone recall reading this quote? i used it in a tribute to bukowski - summer 02 - just dredged it up from the bottom of my desk drawer...cannot recall what rag it appeared in: "bukowski has also become the prophet of the underemployed...the computer programmer who can whistle beethoven, the...

bill i've signed up and await the literature - the project sounds like a great way to promote poetry! rrat

yawl i'm in for the duration and a hundred bucks...use it as you see fit - peace rrat

yawl when a wound heals the scar tissue is sometimes called "proud flesh" perhaps the 'title' is a take-off on the old ways...yet it sounds of bukowski - i'll wager he coined the 'scars of youth line' - rrat

Jimmy Snerp i like 'assholes' - they perform a very useful (needed) biological function - bukowski was like the 'book on biology' human that is - he connected us 'anus apretures' to the 'brain' and did so while including nature's smaller in stature (but not in numbers) creatures - when you read...

don't have time tonite to read slow or - for that matter to read at all - digestion of the material is my method of choice - seldom do the gastro-thing with other poets but charles bukowski resonates - rings true like a really hard woman and hangs in much the same way as a pair of trailer hitch...

zoom man - hoochmonkey9 - the bookmarks are indeed a nice touch - in a three volume collection of poems - dated circa 1906 - the ribbons are in place but worn very thin as are the pages - i've been toying with the idea of including some sort of page marker in my next chapbook - rrat

mjp 'readings' seems right to me - i know when it (a finished poem) is worth my signature - critics be damned - you just know an audience can be moved by the reading...submitting to any source for "advice" is simply writing for a market - and...i don't wish to be leonard cohen - sure is...

the a.a.a.'s notwithstanding bukowski's works did indeed display much emotion - perhaps some (of the aforementioned 'aaa's) missed it due to his close relationship with humanity - when he wrote of ants and bums and...well the subject matter requires a bit of a 'leap of faith' until the...

bill/evas i recently judged a juried photography show - the results went in and awards were made...the critics (local) press offerings beat up the one 'place' award signed in silver - beat it up to the point the poor bastard may never sign in silver again - i tend toward your take bill - there...

all excellent choices...sandburg and jeffers are near the top of my list - as are s. plath and edna st. vincent millay - you might try the disipline of haiku for a deeper perspective... rrat

ought oh! better put me down as one of them d.g.a.r.a. followers... and for the record - i'm not american or english either...i'm simply a man - oneiros i'll check out your poetry - thanks for the link... vinden pacific rrat

grahamcooke i hear you - but the whole grammar thing rubs me any way except the smooth - it is arbitrary and the same is true for punctuation - i prefer to read and write as bukowski did - plain words in whatever order - we seem to have no problem understanding him... as for the 'lazy' sign...

yawl i enjoy the cd (poems and insults) often - recently i crawled from under a pile of bleeding hearts - each lamented a decline of the 'modern' poet (ghram - pinsky - dunn) - a scant few seemed real in their show of emotion - which of bukowski's works would you rank as most 'emotional?'...

yawl buk would have hated truss - her last book "talk to the hand" damned us for using the word 'fuck' - she never speaks the word but in it's sted "the 'f' word" or similar substitutes - overall the book is funny - yeah...buk would have hated her - rrat

long live the zoom man! being the oldest male in my lineage (60+) i can relate to your post - ahhhhh! its good to be back! rrat

i am a mechanic - early childhood on bikes - early adult on trucks in the army - thirty years on production equipment in a glass factory - present day facilities maintenance for a public school system on the east coast to supplement my pension - i love language and word origins...i read and...