false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167428112m/23534.jpg 23534 4 Description not available 2640266 5 6 1977 Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977 total:2297|5:924|4:875|3:415|2:64|1:19| 2297 9512 2914 151 5 3 false false Wed Aug 08 04:16:05 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 08 04:37:55 -0700 2007 An Almost Made Up Poem

I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny
blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny
they are small, and the fountain is in France
where you wrote me that last letter and
I answered and never heard from you again.
you used to write insan...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 1987 Mon Apr 28 05:00:27 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 05:01:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 19:25:34 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 14:13:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 14 01:49:53 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 14:28:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Wed Sep 19 08:26:44 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 08:31:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 18:36:31 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 17:12:06 -0700 2009
Vallejo writing about
loneliness while starving to
death;
Van Gogh's ear rejected by a
whore;
Rimbaud running off to Africa
to look for gold and finding
an incurable case of syphilis;
Beethoven gone deaf;
Pound dragged ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 11:50:52 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 18:45:19 -0800 2008
there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

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alone with everybody


the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in t...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Jun 03 20:27:16 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 21:00:04 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Sep 24 23:45:22 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 12:46:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 21 11:36:17 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 19:54:58 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 16 10:18:04 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 10:20:05 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Mon Mar 16 11:28:38 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 11:32:35 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Wed Apr 09 01:33:34 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 01:41:05 -0700 2008
Having said all that Bukowski actually makes me feel him. I don't know...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Dec 19 13:00:55 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 13:02:07 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Jun 21 04:29:02 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 04:29:02 -0700 2007
I feel a real tension about liking Bukowski's work. On the one hand, he is a wordsmith, putting words together in ways that are lovely and exciting an...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 08:28:34 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 06:39:01 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Dec 24 12:29:43 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 12:30:14 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=23534