I've Fought Them From the Moment I Saw Light From the Womb

[nymark]

This is from Sun #1 (1961). It's reprinted in Slouching Toward Nirvana but with some differences.

 

[hank solo]

Thanks.


Interested readers note - nymark previously post the preceding poem 10:30 P.M. in an earlier post, here.

 

[mjp]

It's reprinted in Slouching Toward Nirvana but with some differences.

Some, yes.

 

[nymark]

I was using "some" as a metaphor.

 

[Johannes]

That is a very interesting poem! Some great great great lines there.

Thanks a lot!

 

[Ponder]

Hiding?

 

[cirerita]

The Pleasures of the Truly Damned: Charles Bukowski's Unaltered Poetry as First Published in the Little Magazines should be released before long.

 

[Black Swan]

Beautiful

Hiding?

I guess that JM and B had similar taste in shirts.

 

[mjp]

Unaltered Poetry

I would settle for unraped.

 

[Erik]

I was using "some" as a metaphor.

Thats some metaphor!

Thank gOD Buk sent out to the littles before JM got his clutches on them...

I liked this line:
"and a 4-f kind of life"

 

[Johannes]

I've read this several times now and especially love the ending!

What a rhythm, jesus. I hear a kind of stomping in my head while reading the last two lines.

 

[David]

while all around him
the whores were selling their bodies
like beautiful things the bees like,
like beautiful things that bloom.

Jawohl, Gesang ist Dasein
Those are such sweet singing lines that are very hard to get out of one's head...

 

[zobraks]

reprinted* in Slouching Toward Nirvana

*a synonym for "fucked up beyond recognition"