The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 9/5/2008)

[RetroLounge]

Beer

I don't know how many bottles of beer
I have consumed while waiting for things
to get better
I dont know how much wine and whisky
and beer
mostly beer
I have consumed after
splits with women-
waiting for the phone to ring
waiting for the sound of footsteps,
and the phone to ring
waiting for the sounds of footsteps,
and the phone never rings
until much later
and the footsteps never arrive
until much later
when my stomach is coming up
out of my mouth
they arrive as fresh as spring flowers:
"what the hell have you done to yourself?
it will be 3 days before you can fuck me!"

the female is durable
she lives seven and one half years longer
than the male, and she drinks very little beer
because she knows its bad for the figure.

while we are going mad
they are out
dancing and laughing
with horney cowboys.

well, there's beer
sacks and sacks of empty beer bottles
and when you pick one up
the bottle fall through the wet bottom
of the paper sack
rolling
clanking
spilling gray wet ash
and stale beer,
or the sacks fall over at 4 a.m.
in the morning
making the only sound in your life.

beer
rivers and seas of beer
the radio singing love songs
as the phone remains silent
and the walls stand
straight up and down
and beer is all there is.

Charles Bukowski

*************



*************
:hi:

RL

[YankeyMCC]

1. Fantastic thx! nt

[RetroLounge]

8. ...

:hi:

RL

[MissMillie]

2. wow....

I mean, I like beer, and this guy seems to as well, but it bothers me that he thinks that it's "all there is".


But you really gotta love a poem entitled "Beer"

[RetroLounge]

9. Hey!

:hi:

RL

[blueraven95]

3. ...

I'm finding this one disturbing today.

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

12. ...

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Retro!

Wow, Bukowski!

I should have known, both from the style and the subject!

Really excellent, and I thank you!

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

13. ...

:hi:

RL

[lizziegrace]

5. ...

from heaven on Thursday to hell on Friday... ;)

This one is disturbing. I thought it was usually the woman who was waiting and waiting. :shrug:

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

14. Oh, no. We men wait and wait too...

:hi:

RL

[lizziegrace]

17. ...

:hug:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. Whiskey River....

I think Tom T. Hall likes beer, too.

Bukowski...let's set this to music and a make a Million. We can take it to Branson ;)

Requesting something less self-pitying for tomorrow, please.

[RetroLounge]

15. less self-pitying?

I'll see what I can do...

:hi:

RL

[Guava Jelly]

7. Been there

Mr.Bukowski has been there too it would seem.
You sort of have to have been to write a poem like this.
:thumbsup:

[RetroLounge]

16. true...

:hi:

RL

[mokawanis]

10. Good ol' Bukowski

One of a kind that guy. I was thinking the poem was too much of a bummer and then I saw who wrote it and I thought "oh, yeah, good ol' Bukowski".

[RetroLounge]

18. Pretty typical of him...

:hi:

RL

[xchrom]

11. ...

well, there's beer
sacks and sacks of empty beer bottles
and when you pick one up
the bottle fall through the wet bottom
of the paper sack
rolling
clanking
spilling gray wet ash
and stale beer,
or the sacks fall over at 4 a.m.
in the morning
making the only sound in your life.

[lizziegrace]

19. Hey!!

:hug:


Where've you been?

:loveya:

[RetroLounge]

20. It takes Bukowski to get this many responses?

:hi:

RL

[lizziegrace]

21. It's the beer

beverage of choice here in the lounge...

;)

[RetroLounge]

22. That must be it...

:hi:

RL