Bukowski poems6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() You can contribute through PayPal, Patreon, Venmo and Crypto. what do you expect me to do he screams go to New York and pump the hands of the publishers no, I tell him, but quit your job, go into a small room and do the thing. Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell 5137 likes Like I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. Charles Bukowski the lucky ones stuck in the rain on the freeway, 6:15 p.m., stop, then first gear, then stop, these are the lucky ones, these are the employed, most with their radios on while lighting cigarettes, trying not to think. By Charles Bukowski he lives in a house with a swimming pool and says the job is killing him. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your contributions will help us continue providing the best free cultural and educational materials to learners everywhere. aching in one place alone untouched unspoken to watering a plant. If you would like to support the mission of Open Culture, consider making a donation to our site. If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newsletter, please find it here. That’s a long speech, isn’t it? But it means something. They can’t get out of that circle. You’ll see, someday they’ll say: “Bukowski knew.” Lay down for 3 or 4 days till you get your juices back, then get up, look around and do it. But who the hell can do it cause you need a dollar. That’s all. Hell, there’s nothing else to do but sleep. at the water fountains they owned us and disowned us. been able to make any arrangements for purchasing specimens, or whether they will have a representative in the Bukowski rooms. ![]() in the schoolyard the bullies ruled well, and in the restrooms. I want to go to sleep.” She says: “What? You want to go to sleep, it’s only 1pm!” We’re not even drinking, you know. taunted all the way home to our homes of hell. Everybody should go to bed now and then, when they’re down low and give it up for three or four days. Then they’ll come back good for a while.īut we’re so obsessed with, we have to get up and do it and go back to sleep. In fact there’s a woman I’m living with now, get’s around 12:30, 1pm, I say: “I’m sleepy. I think someday…they’ll say this psychotic guy knew something that…you know in days ahead and medicine, and how they figure these things out. Drink a beer down and go back to bed. I come out of that completely re-enlightened for 2 or 3 months. you’re Charles Bukowski, aren’t you and I got up and peeked through the iron grill to make sure it wasn’t a cop, and I placed a robe upon my nakedness, kicked a beercan out of the way and bade them enter, an editor and a poet. I have periods where, you know, when I feel a little weak or depressed. Fuck it! The Wheaties aren’t going down right. I just go to bed for three days and four nights, pull down all the shades and just go to bed. Here’s a transcript of what Bukowski has to say: To gain a more in-depth understanding of depression and its biological basis, we’d recommend watching this lecture by Stanford’s Robert Sapolksy. ![]() He explains it in some characteristically NSFW detail above. But he knew how to channel it, how to turn days of darkness into sources of personal and creative renewal. ![]()
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