BUK letters on eBay....

[Carterofmars]

Actually, it sounds better just ending at: somethings don't change


To me it sounds like a place he may have ended it. But, remember this is just my "fantasy poem".



somethings don't change


my big brown-yellow
cat has
been prowling
this room.
he's waiting for
me to get
out of this chair
where
I type

it's often his
sleeping place.
All right.
he can have
it.

My ass
is beat from
3 months of
80 mile
round
trips to the
racetrack.

Just that
mass of faces
out
there
is horrifying.

I think,
doesn't anybody
else
see what
I see?

I don't
think that they
do, or
otherwise they would
run
out of
there screaming.


Somethings
don't change.




joe

 

[roni]

I'd be interested in reading that interview. If you can post the title of that book it would be cool. Only problem is I can only curse in German....

that's alright. the first 3 things i always want to learn in a foreign language is "thanks", "please" and to curse.
well, and to say "hello".
the first 4 things i want to learn ...


the book is, what i made a link about.
Here it is:

BUK - Von und ueber Charles Bukowski.
Edited by A.D.Winans [!] and Rainer Wehlen.
Augsburg: Maro, 1983/84/89.


the quote i was referring to, wasn't an interview, but an essay by Buk.
the german title of which is 'Er verprügelt die Frauen, mit denen er zusammen lebt.' (ENGLISH: 'He beats his women.')

in my edition, the quote is on page 111 and goes:

"Mein Beitrag war es, die Lyrik loszuläsen und sie einfacher zu machen, sie menschlicher zu gestalten. Ich habe ihnen beigebracht, dass man ein Gedicht in der gleichen Art und Weise schreiben kann wie einen Brief, dass ein Gedicht sogar unterhaltsamer sein kann und dass zu einem Gedicht nicht notwendigerweise ein Anflug von Heiligkeit gehärt."

my own poor English RE-TRANSLATION:

"My contribution [to literature] was, to losen it, to make it easier, more human. I taught them, that a poem can be written in the same way as a letter, that a poem can be even more entertaining and that you don't need any holyness about it."