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<blockquote data-quote="Hedonistic Traveler" data-source="post: 453640" data-attributes="member: 7013">I haven't done Factotum yet. I've heard good things though. So far I've done &quot;Women&quot;, &quot;Post Office&quot;, and &quot;Ham on Rye&quot;, plus some random poetry. I think he was a good writer, great at what he did. So many people read his stuff and think they could write something just as good, but it's harder than it looks to come across as sincere. Any big Bukowski fan should check out John Fante(my avatar). &quot;Ask the Dust&quot; is his best work and inspired Bukowski to begin writing. Also my favorite poem by him is &quot;To the Whore Who Stole my Poems&quot;,some say we should keep personal remorse from the poem,stay abstract, and there is some reason in this,but jezus;twelve poems gone and I don't keep carbons and you havemypaintings too, my best ones; its stifling:are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them?why didn't you take my money? they usually dofrom the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner.next time take my left arm or a fiftybut not my poems:I'm not Shakespearebut sometime simplythere won't be any more, abstract or otherwise; there'll always be money and whores and drunkardsdown to the last bomb,but as God said,crossing his legs,I see where I have made plenty of poetsbut not so very muchpoetry.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hedonistic Traveler, post: 453640, member: 7013"] I haven't done Factotum yet. I've heard good things though. So far I've done "Women", "Post Office", and "Ham on Rye", plus some random poetry. I think he was a good writer, great at what he did. So many people read his stuff and think they could write something just as good, but it's harder than it looks to come across as sincere. Any big Bukowski fan should check out John Fante(my avatar). "Ask the Dust" is his best work and inspired Bukowski to begin writing. Also my favorite poem by him is "To the Whore Who Stole my Poems", some say we should keep personal remorse from the poem, stay abstract, and there is some reason in this, but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don't keep carbons and you have my paintings too, my best ones; its stifling: are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them? why didn't you take my money? they usually do from the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner. next time take my left arm or a fifty but not my poems: I'm not Shakespeare but sometime simply there won't be any more, abstract or otherwise; there'll always be money and whores and drunkards down to the last bomb, but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. [/QUOTE]

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