Poetry In Your Pocket Day - Charles Bukowski

In celebration of National Poem In Your Pocket day, let's begin with:

Charles Bukowski. 

This man cuts right to the bone of things, to the heart of the matter, to the patter of the dogs feet on the hardwood floors, to the ants crawling over the garbage cans, to the hand that reaches under the lampshade and turns off the light.

His poem "the telephone" is also on the blog, one of my favorites.




Poetry
by Charles Bukowski



It
takes
a lot of

desperation

dissatisfaction

and
disillusion

to
write

a
few
good
poems.

it's not
for
everybody

either to

write
it

or even to

read
it.




This is the way he breaks his lines in the book THE LAST NIGHT OF THE EARTH POEMS. http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Night-Earth-Poems/dp/0876858639/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335453525&sr=1-1

There is the link if you would like to buy the book and have a lot of laughs, when the day is long and you can't take it any more, go to Buk and listen to what he has to say, in gratitude, for instance: you go to your car, it's there, you get in, it starts, well, that's a good day.