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Published: 2005-10-17 19:48:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 1778; Favourites: 58; Downloads: 33
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Leaving so soon? It'sokay - we've come to expect it.
Visit every so often. Send a letter signed with a heart.
Every one will be placed unopened in the top drawer.
I
swear.
Answers are only excuses.
Disguises are
only wishes...
Genuine expressions of what we want to be.
Faded, tired, we finally
rest -
only to find that every day is another performance.
Marvelous! (the crowd cheers.)
Here is what they've come for.
Every single
last one of them. They don't want your
love, they want your pain. No one ever leaves disappointed.
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Comments: 73
I love Buk, and you've captured so much of the essence of him here. Well done.
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i read him before bed sometimes and it does something to me
this does something for me
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I have read little of Bukowski, but I like the poem you have woven around the book title very much.
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You're laways welcome, Shane
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Acrostics are muchfun. I agree with the above comment about how this doesn't seem like mimicry or parroting, but rather you let Bukowski shine through.
Incidentally, the macro-proposition of the Acrostic puts me in mind of Amores Perros , oddly enough. Have you seen it?
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thanks, jamie. I have indeed seen Amores Perros
and like it muchly.
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I suspected you might.
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'They don't want your
love, they want your pain.'
I smell that.
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this poem is about those dastardly friends you haven't seen in a long time who when they come to visit you after this long absence bring DVDs
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Best acrostic I've ever read (love that book, by the way)
They don't want your
love, they want your pain. No one ever leaves disappointed.
<3
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it's my favorite Bukowski poem
collection.
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They don't want your
love, they want your pain. No one ever leaves disappointed.
yum.
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Ah, I love Bukowski. This is... I love this as a midway between some of the super-radical modern poetry that's being written and what Bukowski himself was trying to do (and doing).
So, basically I love it.
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ah yeah. I see that now. Well I like Bukowski and I like the book that the acrostic spells, so I commented.
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haha. just glad to have you reading.
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The from stanza doesn't sound enough like something Buk could back up to really fit in the acrostic. The rest of it is, well, it reads a bit like a Bukowski poem, so I guess you got what you were going for.
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thanks.
this piece is almost 5 years old. I wasn't
really trying to mimic his style, I just
penned a couple of acrostics in tribute
to some of my favorite writers. there
are similar old poems for Burroughs &
Ginsberg.
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Ye' didn't mimic or parrot, but you let that little bit of him that is in you shine through.
And that's just awesome.
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much obliged. scratch that: VERY much obliged.
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I've been writing a short story for about a year now that I keep falling away from, "Bukowski's Epitaph" which is a satire about a man who leaves everyhting he has to become like Buck. His epitaph of course reads, 'don't try.'
Not sure if this poem encourages or discourages me from picking it up again.
On another subject, very good piece. Don't have time to crit now, gotta go to work.
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thanks. this poem is almost five years old,
but I gave it a spit polish yesterday.
also, I'd like to see yours.
I already showed you mine.
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I faved, but of course I believe in love hahah
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congratulations to us hahah
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no one does ever disappoint in that way, do they?
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inconsistency is the most consistent thing in my life.
ps.
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