This Is Not The Titanic, 1974

[Purple Stickpin]

From a mag I stumbled onto in Stonington, CT back in about 1990, This Is Not The Titanic, 1974. This makes a good companion piece to:

My Landlady - Wormwood Review - Vol. 11 - No. 4 - Page 134 - 1971
My Landlady And My Landlord - Mockingbird Wish Me Luck - pg. 44

Sorry for the photo; I don't have a scanner.

 

[Dennis Loves The Beer]

Damn good find. Thanks Purple.

 

[Bukfan]

Nice poem! Thanks, PS...

 

[Mark73]

The photo isn't too bad, I could read every line. Very good poem. Thank you, PS.

 

[willrodgers]

thanks PS.
i really enjoyed this one.

 

[nervas]

Ha! That was awesome!!!!! I nearly choked on my water when he tells them their his new parents and kisses them on the head. The ending is Bukowski magic!

Thanks P.S.

 

[Black Swan]

Great one! Thank you PS.

 

[Bill Sikes]

That is a classic!

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I nearly choked on my water when he tells them their his new parents and kisses them on the head.

Last week I kissed my mother-in-law on the head as she lay dying. Purple posted this the day she died. She would have been 90 on Dec. 2nd born in 1920. Bukowski's generation from a different world than him.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

This is also from This Is Not The Titanic and still shows uncollected in the database (zobraks may not have gotten to this thread yet). Editor's Note: Might want to change the title of this thread to This Is Not The Titanic.

 

[Black Swan]

This is also from This Is Not The Titanic and still shows uncollected in the database...

I read that one before, a good one.

 

[Erik]

I like the lines:

a gentle white smoke coming
from under the hood.​

They set the whole scene. So much said in so few words.