Can we honor BUK with a poem here?

See it below, mate!

the eye of the blackbird by bukowski.net

Among twenty snowy mountains
the only thing moving
was the eye of the blackbird.


I had watched it all morning
and it reminded me of
how many times
I had wondered if the eyes
of the people I had been talking to might flicker,
if only occasionally.


Do I exist?

I realized that I didn't care
one way or the other
Until I saw my cats
playing at my feet
with a headless mouse.


The poor bastard
never had a chance
because the world
had him by the throat.




Ok who wants to start the next one?

joe
 

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
Right, PS! I did'nt read it carefully enough. How embarrassing!:o
 
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so far on this one....

Line 1: One line is never enough
Line 2: I heard while tucking the paper
Line 3: into her soft hand;
Line 4: it seems like every second weekend had ended this way.

Next line?
 
thinking of the shitty, urine-soaked bills
I was going to pay the poor bastard who brought my booze.

Christ, finally somebody has it
worse than me.
 

1fsh2fsh

I think that I think too much
Founding member
well thats enough for me he said, and headed off to find some intellect...
 
I'm gonna end this one...

He walked to the gate and watched
as the animals were paraded for inspection-
there wasn't a horse in site.


So it reads like this...


One line is never enough

One line is never enough
I heard while tucking the paper
into her soft hand.
It seems like every second weekend
had ended this way;
thinking of the shitty, urine-soaked bills
I was going to pay the poor bastard
who brought my booze.
Her ,sitting , pumping ink
into her Papermate-
then I drank a cold beer,
wrote a poem while listening to Mahler,
had a babe, and headed to the track.
Well that's enough for me he said,
and headed off to find some intellect...
among the ponies
before placing his bet.
With his better self, a jockey in position
amongst the sad animals,
20 in hand, escape inevitable.
He walked to the gate and watched
as the animals were paraded for inspection-
there wasn't a horse in site.



END


Who will start the next poem... Line 1?


joe
 
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Black Swan

Abord the Yorikke!
this is what we have so far:


Line 1: I'm holding a bottle of beer

Line 2: In this hand

Line 3: and I'm holding my heart in this emptiness,

Line 4: flaccid...as a dead fish,

Line 5: dessicating in a dry LA roominghouse

as the dry Santa Ana winds blow,

Line 6: humiliating myself at post time...

Line 7: as usual, while I wait for better times to appear
 
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