99 to one

[Snafu in the Void]

A lot of Bukowski's writing can be quite misogynistic, but I don't agree with that. That's just Bukowski for you.
Great motivational poem in Bukowski's own twisted way.



99 to one - Charles Bukowski

The blazing shark wants my balls
as I walk through the meat section
looking for salami and cheese.

Purple housewives
fingering 75 cent avocados
know my shopping cart
is an over-sized cock.

I am man with a switchball watch
standing in a honky-tonk phone booth
sucking strawberry red titty
upside-down
in a Philadelphia crowd.

Suddenly all about me
are screams of
rape, rape, rape, rape, rape!

And I'm stiffing it
to something beneath me
dyed red hair, bad breath
blue teeth.

I used to like Monet
I used to like Monet very much,
it was funny
I thought
the way he did it with colors.

Women are so expensive
dog leashes are expensive

I'm going to start selling air
in dark orange bags
marked "Moon Blooms"

I used to like bottles full of blood
young girls
and camel haired coats
prince valiant
popeye's magic touch.

The struggle is in the struggle
like a cork-screw

A good man doesn't get cork
in the wine

The thought has occurred to
millions of men while shaving

The removal of life
might be preferred
to the removal of hair

Spit out cotton!
and clean your rear view mirror
run like you mean it,
drunk jock.

The Whores will win
the Fools will win
but break
like a horse
out of the gate.

 

[MsDiz]

I have one of his books here right now that I love to go through every now and again.

 

[Shady's Fox]

RIP. ❤

 

[MrsGamp]

A lot of Bukowski's writing can be quite misogynistic, but I don't agree with that. That's just Bukowski for you.
Great motivational poem in Bukowski's own twisted way.



99 to one - Charles Bukowski

The blazing shark wants my balls
as I walk through the meat section
looking for salami and cheese.

Purple housewives
fingering 75 cent avocados
know my shopping cart
is an over-sized cock.

I am man with a switchball watch
standing in a honky-tonk phone booth
sucking strawberry red titty
upside-down
in a Philadelphia crowd.

Suddenly all about me
are screams of
rape, rape, rape, rape, rape!

And I'm stiffing it
to something beneath me
dyed red hair, bad breath
blue teeth.

I used to like Monet
I used to like Monet very much,
it was funny
I thought
the way he did it with colors.

Women are so expensive
dog leashes are expensive

I'm going to start selling air
in dark orange bags
marked "Moon Blooms"

I used to like bottles full of blood
young girls
and camel haired coats
prince valiant
popeye's magic touch.

The struggle is in the struggle
like a cork-screw

A good man doesn't get cork
in the wine

The thought has occurred to
millions of men while shaving

The removal of life
might be preferred
to the removal of hair

Spit out cotton!
and clean your rear view mirror
run like you mean it,
drunk jock.

The Whores will win
the Fools will win
but break
like a horse
out of the gate.

CB varies from almost sublime to pretty piss-poor.
Eg I have a book of his called "Women" which was impossible to take seriously, and I'm sure it WAS serious.
One woman after another, he fucks, and most of them are told that their problem is that their cunts are too big.
You keep waiting for it to occur to the guy that maybe his penis is too small, but it never does, so with a sigh one must put the book aside.

 

[Snafu in the Void]

CB varies from almost sublime to pretty piss-poor.
Eg I have a book of his called "Women" which was impossible to take seriously, and I'm sure it WAS serious.
One woman after another, he fucks, and most of them are told that their problem is that their cunts are too big.
You keep waiting for it to occur to the guy that maybe his penis is too small, but it never does, so with a sigh one must put the book aside.

haha yeah, thats Bukowski

The drunken old perverted man of American poetry

He has some gems, though.

Theres a reason he never became famous until he was about 50, and only then had a cult following

Bukowski had no filter and let his own shortcomings and dark/perverted side show in his writing, and that's partly why I love him.

Again, I don't agree with how he writes about women. Bukowski is Bukowski. I like him for his other stuff, particularly how open he was about his alcoholism, depression and other things.

 

[wudbutcher]

Poor fellow had an awful upbringing. Never really expected to make it as a writer. Truly believe he wrote to avoid going " postal"
Most his writings never meant to be published. Not excusing; he was tormented though.
Prefer him to Burroughs though. The latter was a spoiled psychopath

 

[Snafu in the Void]

Poor fellow had an awful upbringing. Never really expected to make it as a writer. Truly believe he wrote to avoid going " postal"
Most his writings never meant to be published. Not excusing; he was tormented though.
Prefer him to Burroughs though. The latter was a spoiled psychopath

Well said. He was a dirt poor alcoholic for nearly his entire life. It's reflected in his writing.

 

[wudbutcher]

When I read his recount of the acne treatments, I teared up a bit. Or his boils on his back weeping thru his shirt. His dislike/ fascination for women was pitiful. You can tell in his descriptive text, he loved a pretty lady.

 

[wudbutcher]

He had two strengths early on. He could throw down, ( no technique, just wouldnt quit,) and could out drink anyone.

 

[Snafu in the Void]

He had two strengths early on. He could throw down, ( no technique, just wouldnt quit,) and could out drink anyone.

I love how he writes about bar fights.

When you have nothing to lose, you can out fight or drink anyone. He truly had nothing to lose.

 

[MrsGamp]

When I read his recount of the acne treatments, I teared up a bit. Or his boils on his back weeping thru his shirt. His dislike/ fascination for women was pitiful. You can tell in his descriptive text, he loved a pretty lady.

What book has the stuff about his acne in it?
I have seen a Polish movie called Crazy Love which I suspect originated from a Bukowski novel/story, about a youth whose teen years are blighted by appalling acne. He grows up to be an alcoholic necrophile....

 

[wudbutcher]

I believe it was Ham on Rye. Only movie I know of based on his writings was Barfly.

 

[wudbutcher]

What book has the stuff about his acne in it?
I have seen a Polish movie called Crazy Love which I suspect originated from a Bukowski novel/story, about a youth whose teen years are blighted by appalling acne. He grows up to be an alcoholic necrophile....

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