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Tag Archives: Charles Bukowski
The gods wait to delight in you
Charles Bukowski // “Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out. There is light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness. Be … Continue reading
Magic persists without us
“the Egyptians loved the cat were entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now here good people with good eyes are very few yet fine cats with great style lounge about in the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Restaurants, USA, Writing
Tagged American Poets, cats, Charles Bukowski, Poetry
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Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day
, In 1974, Saturday Review magazine asked some of the world’s leading thinkers (Isaac Asimov, Jacques Cousteau, Andrei Sakharov, etc.) what the world of 2024 would look like. Here’s what they got right (internet) and wrong (factories on the Moon) … Continue reading
Read a little poetry
I can trace my love of poetry back to my 7th grade English teacher. For reasons lost to the fog of time, one day Natalie Fine handed me a book of poems by Langston Hughes and simply said, “I think … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged Charles Bukowski, Langston Hughes, Manila, Poetry, Poets
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As the poems go
As the Poems Go as the poems go into the thousands you realize that you’ve created very little. it comes down to the rain, the sunlight, the traffic, the nights and the days of the years, the faces. leaving this … Continue reading
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain.
“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the … Continue reading
So You Wanna Be A Writer
-The narrator of the powerful video below is Tom Bedlam -The music is Alice In Winter – Hold This Place. if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out … Continue reading
“Ten percent of what I write is immortal”
You Never Had It – An Evening with Bukowski is a documentary from director Matteo Borgardt that transports you back to January 1981 for an intimate evening conversation with legendary writer and poet Charles Bukowski at his San Pedro home. … Continue reading
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Tagged American Poets, Charles Bukowski, Documentary, poerty
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Drink from the well of your self and begin again
“I have been alone but seldom lonely. I have satisfied my thirst at the well of my self and that wine was good, the best I ever had, and tonight sitting staring into the dark I now finally understand the … Continue reading
the gods wait to delight in you
It should come as no surprise to any one that the poet Charles Bukowski was an inspiration and muse for the great Tom Waits. I am always moved by the short Bukowski poem “The Laughing Heart” so I love the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Bukowski, Poetry, Tom Waits
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Travel Between The Pages 