I've been asked at the website a shitload of times "Who is that introducing the band before the song Kiss It Up to God on The One and Lonely C.D."? It is the same person who speaks after The Great Goodbye, Mr. Henry Charles Bukowski! Both Bukowski and Fante(The Brotherhood of the Grape,Ask the Dust) have influenced my music. I suggest reading them both........If you have the nuts. Literature, like film is filled with people praised for mediocrity so when you encounter something with true genius it becomes consuming. Bukowski writes the most beautiful poetry I've ever read. He is notorious for his bottle tilting, but that has nothing to do with the blunt,magically poignant lines he has put to paper. Liking Bukowski for his drinking is equivalent to liking Dali for his moustache.
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Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?
Charles Bukowski
I drink to that. CHEERS
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