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Re: A Poem by Charles Bukowski
Posted by Jeffrey (Guest) - Friday, December 17 2010, 4:58:57 (UTC)
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Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed reading this.

- Jeffrey

Marcello wrote:
>"Dinosauria, we"
> by the late L.A. poet Charles Bukowski
>
>born like this
>into this
>as the chalk faces smile
>as Mrs. Death smiles
>as the elevators break
>as political landscapes dissolve
>as the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree
>as the oily fish spit out their oily prey
>as the sun is masked
>
>we are
>born like this
>into these carefully mad wars
>into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
>into bars where people no longer speak to each other
>into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
>
>born into this
>into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die
>into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty
>into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
>into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
>
>born into this
>walking and living through this
>dying because of this
>muted because of this
>castrated
>debauched
>disinherited
>because of this
>fooled by this
>used by this
>pissed on by this
>made crazy and sick by this
>made violent
>made inhuman
>by this
>
>the heart is blackened
>the fingers reach for the throat
>the gun
>the knife
>the bomb
>the fingers reach toward an unresponsive god
>
>the fingers reach for the bottle
>the pill
>the powder
>
>we are born into this sorrowful deadliness
>we are born into a government 60 years in debt
>that soon will be unable to even pay the interest on that debt
>and the banks will burn
>money will be useless
>there will be open and unpunished murder in the streets
>land will be useless
>food willl become a diminishing return
>nuclear power will be taken over by the many
>explosions will continually shake the earth
>radiated robot men will stalk each other
>the rich and the chosen wil watch from space platforms
>Dante's Inferno will be made to look like a children's playground
>
>the sun will not be seen and it will always be night
>trees will die
>radiated en will eat the flesh of radiated men
>the sea will be poisoned
>the lakes and rivers will vanish
>rain will be the new gold
>
>the rotting bodies of men and animals wil stink in the dark wind
>
>the last few survivors will be overtaken by new and hideous diseases
>and the space platforms will be destroyed by attrition
>the petering out of supplies
>the natural effect of general decay
>
>and there will be the most beautiful silence never heard
>
>born out of that.
>
>the sun still hidden there
>
>awaiting the next chapter.
>
>by Charles Bukowski (1992)



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