Just for clarity, I'm not Jebdo. I am not sure how my name and his/her message got combined. I am not sure what poem Jebdo is working with. I chose 2 flies because it looks like an earlier and more interpretive work. I have enjoyed reading Bukowski for the last couple of weeks, but I am not a long time fan. A group of friends recomended Bukowski when I commented that I have not really enjoyed the poetry portion of my lit class. I'm a 27 yr old nursing student, was a medic in the Army for 8 yrs. I enjoy writing, and reading, I like early Bob Dylan, and a pile of Eastern European writers, dostoyevsky, Kafka, Bolgakov, etc. I think that bukowski's poems are his attempt to make society look people in the face that they have ignored. I think that in 2 flies he feels that he is one of the flies, and the narrator is society. The narrator tries to ignore the flies, and rationalizes why it is not his problem that they are flies. His continued rationalizations lead to violence when he destroys one fly, and pacifies the other. I really think the bulk of his work is just an attempt to get society to look flies like himself in the face, and quit ignoring the aspects of life that aren't so beautiful. I might be way off, and I don't wish to post my entire paper because some jack off is likely to come here to do some homework and turn my shit in.
