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Open Question: What does this mean? 'Arrange for me this splendid insecurity'?
Charles Bukowski said it and I'd like to know what you think it means. 'Arrange for me this splendid insecurity' -Charles Bukowski This isn't a quote from his books or from an interview. It's from a painting he did. Nothing came before or followed it.

Resolved Question: Charles Bukowski quote meaning.?
"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink." I think I get the relative meaning of this quote by Bukowski but I don't think I've fully grasped it. Ideas?

Resolved Question: Suggestion/help on Bukowski poem response.?
I need to analyze this poem and say how it inspires me, and how it relates to me. I was thinking of doing something like, telling how we should beware these people( that the poem talks about) and then at the end have a sort of epiphany that I am one of these people who is needed to be feared. Suggestions? oh! and what I'm writing is going to be a poem. The Genius Of The Crowd Charles Bukowski there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace those who preach god, need god those who preach peace do not have peace those who preach peace do not have love beware the preachers beware the knowers beware those who are always reading books beware those who either detest poverty or are proud of it beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world not being able to love fully they will believe your love incomplete and then they will hate you and their hatred will be perfect like a shining diamond like a knife like a mountain like a tiger like hemlock their finest art

Resolved Question: What is your favorite Charles Bukowski poem?

Voting Question: Is this a good poem to give to a girl that I like?
Yes Yes by Charles Bukowski when God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created hate we had a standard utility when God created me He created me when God created the monkey He was asleep when He created the giraffe He was drunk when He created narcotics He was high and when He created suicide He was low when He created you lying in bed He knew what He was doing He was drunk and He was high and He created the mountains and the sea and fire at the same time He made some mistakes but when He created you lying in bed He came all over His Blessed Universe.

Resolved Question: ? _ _ charles bukowski _ _?
What's the name of his poem that starts something like: "You know it was good" and in the end he says that walls are, like, shaking...? I have only version in my language, so it's kinda hard to know which specific words are used in the original. I searched google for an hour and nothing. From my language, I'd translate it "Miracle lasts the least" or something liket that.

Resolved Question: What does Buk mean by this quote?
"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you." -Charles Bukowski My sister-in-law has this as a tattoo on her back and I always meant to ask her what it meant but keep forgetting.

Resolved Question: Can someone give me some authors similar to Kurt Vonnegut or Charles Bukowski?
I love their writing and was wondering if their are any other authors out there similar

Resolved Question: What exactly does the poem "Hunk of Rock" by Charles Bukowski mean?
Can someone tell me what this poem means, as like an analysis??

Voting Question: Which poet (alive or dead) is the world's best selling poet? (i read somewhere that it is Charles Bukowski)?

Voting Question: So I’ve been dating this guy recently…?
& I spent over an entire week with him in the past. It was spring break we were inseparable. Went to a ton of reggae shows it was great!! Then he had to go back to Oregon , I am in Texas, and some how we lost connection. He came back after two years… and of course we started hanging out again. Its been 2 weeks now & the other night him and I got a bottle of wine and I got comfortable and asked him if he wanted to see somethings that interest me… he said yes. So I got online and showed him some Charles Bukowski poems, e e cummings and some of my own. After I had finished showing/reading them he looked shocked… overwhelmed … like I had scared the $h*t out of him. He said that C.B was sooo dark and he just is simple minded and doesn’t think like that. & that I am extremely intense. His reaction blew my mind. I really liked this person… and I knew he probably had never read anything like that before. I was trying to enlighten him and show him some new things. He didn’t react very well obviously. He told me that there are only a handful of people that I will connect with and to be mindful that he has never been exposed to something like that. He made me feel weird. I got comfortable… let my hair down and everything went wrong. So my question stop you all is… What went wrong? What do I do now? & Do you think I should just walk away? He is simple. He is handsome. He’s the nature surfer type guy (if you want to classify) I like that he is simple. I am not. I am … I guess the artsy type. & often have people call me strange… but in a good way. Anyhow… I think his simplicity is beautiful. But maybe my eccentricity is too much for him??

Resolved Question: Does it seem to yee that every night turns out to be a little more like Bukowski?
Inspired by Charles Bukowski and Modest Mouse http://www.jaydougherty.com/bukowski/index.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj4RRGq8jNQ

Resolved Question: does anyone know where i can find the following ebooks?
i'd prefer free, but very cheap would also do. i've looked on numerous torrent sites, esnips, 4shared, etc. and no luck. A Coldness in the Blood - Fred Saberhagen Confirmation- Whitley Strieber The Hunger- Whitley Strieber Golden Apples of The Sun & Other Stories- Ray Bradbury Five Days In London, May 1940- John Lukacs Passage- Connie Willis The Vampire Papers- Michael Romkey The Vampire Princess - Michael Romkey Darker Angels- S.P. Somtow Pugilist At Rest- Thom Jones The Broken Hearts Club- Ethan Black The Final Solution- Earle Rice Eunoia- Christian Bok The Frighteners- Michael Jahn The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams- J. O'Barr & Ed Kramer Teen Angst? Naaah- Ned Vizzini Filth- Irvine Welsh The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys- Chris Fuhrman The Unswept Room- Sharon Olds The Oxford Book Of English Stories- A.S. Byatt Farther Reaches Of Human Nature- Abraham Maslow Checkpoint- Nicholson Baker The Member of The Wedding- Carson McCullers Rear View: Stories- Peter Duval The Truth About Celia- Kevin Brockmeier How The Light Gets In- Maria Hyland Black Coffee and Joni's Blue- Keith Kawasaki Crumbtown- Joe Connelly Well- Matthew McIntosh A Slipping-Down Life- Anne Tyler My Life- Anton Chekhov Mr. Spaceman- Robert Olen Butler Skels- Maggie Dubris Shame- Annie Ernaux Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe- Fannie Flagg American Gothic Tales- Joyce Carol Oates Highwaymen- Jonathan Clements Everybody Smokes In Hell- John Ridley The Mysteries of Pittsburgh- Michael Chabon Safe Harbor- Eugene Izzi Bear V. Shark- Chris Bachelder Just Pretend- J.V. Lewton A Life Less Ordinary- John Hodge You Shall Know Our Velocity- Dave Eggers How We Are Hungry- Dave Eggers The Boy- Naeem Murr Immortality- Milan Kundera Second Hand- Michael Zadoorian The Girl In The Flammable Skirt- Aimee Bender Hot Water Music- Charles Bukowski Pursuit of Happiness: Left Bank- Linny Stovall Burn Collector: Collected Stories- Al Burian The Every Boy- Dana Adam Shapiro Death On The Installment Plan- Louis Celine A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints- Dito Montiel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer The Holy Innocents (aka The Dreamers)- Gilbert Adair Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist- Rachel Cohn No One Belongs Here More Than You- Miranda July The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs- Marcus Boon Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism- Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk The Wanting Seed- Anthony Burgess Against Interpretation And Other Essays- Susan Sontag Why Art Cannot Be Taught- James Elkins Genius And Heroin - Michael Largo 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye - John David California Ritual - Mo Hayder Skin - Mo Hayder i tried books on board, but every book i looked up was well over $20, i might as well buy a hard copy! i'm looking for ebooks that are under $5.

Resolved Question: Charles Bukowski, awesome or no awesome?

Resolved Question: What works of fiction would you recommend?
I find it really difficult to find truly good, satisfying novels, and I could really use some help. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. This may be a challenge, as I'm a little hard to please, but I have faith that some book snob out there in Yahoo! Answers land will know just the book for me. Here's a little about my preferences, just to give some idea: -I generally read memoir, so I definitely appreciate first person narration when I read fiction. Third person becomes a little distracting to me after a while, though it's not a dealbreaker. -I just finished reading The Time Traveler's Wife. I almost always avoid reading bestsellers, because they are too often either total crap, but I quite enjoyed this one. -I'm a writer, and I am very critical of the way things are written, diction, grammar, and the rhythmic flow of a piece of writing, so if a book is not well-written, I simply will not get through it. -My favorite fiction writers are Gabriel García Márquez and Jhumpa Lahiri, and I also love Jane Austen, Tim O'Brien, Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. -I'm not going to read Twilight. -Before I read The Time Traveler's Wife the last novel I read was , which I think suggests something about annoyingly dull titles. -I recently purchased The 19th Wife and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and haven't gotten around to them yet, just because I haven't been in the mood for either of them, but I am looking forward to both. -I'm a college student, and my research interests include confessional literature, fundamentalist Mormon polygamy, feminism, the pro-choice and pro-life movements, and the concept of virginity, so novels that touch on these subjects, happen within one of those contexts, or hold related themes will likely be quite interesting to me. Thank you! Dracula has actually been on my to-read list, and I had forgotten about it. And Charlotte Perkins Gilman is another favorite of mine--"The Yellow Wallpaper" is amazing. And, of course, I just realized not that HTML does not work here, so please excuse how awful that looks!

Resolved Question: whats your favorite bukowski poem?
charles bukowski. favorite poem. mine is OH YES

Resolved Question: Book/Author recommendations please!?
The two main authors I really enjoy reading are Kurt Vonnegut and Charles Bukowski. I also enjoyed reading Naked Lunch, A Clockwork Orange, 1984, etc. I really have no idea what other authors or books I might enjoy reading, based upon the authors and books I am fond of. If anyone has a recommendation or something you think I might want to check out, please let me know!! I'm looking for a book or author that is very unique, different, and well written based on the authors and books I mentioned. (AKA: Mainly based off of Kurt Vonnegut and Charles Bukowski)

Resolved Question: Tom Waits fans, do you read Charles Bukowski?
They are kind of like peanut butter and jelly, wouldn't you agree. What are yoiur favorite Waits album and Bukowski book?

Resolved Question: Do you like going to the beach?
"A Day In The Sun" His balls hung so far out of his faded blue swimming trunks, they pressed through the plastic ribbons of the lawn chair seat and you could see the sack, taut and bulging with an old man's nuts. He had a scruffy gray beard that went from the bottom of his crooked chin, to the top of his wrinkled chest. No shirt, no shoes, no sense. The young girls at the beach shrieked when they skipped by him, heading for bluer water. I stood up and approached him, taking my sunglasses off as I spoke. "Hey" Nothing. "Hey, wake up. Your balls are hanging out." He turned and reached into a red and white cooler, digging in the ice. He grabbed the waist of his trunks and dropped a handful of cubes down his front. He got up, halfway, farted, wiggled his shorts, and sat back down. "Are you crazy??" He finally looked up at me. "Listen, son, it's the only way to get my nuts to shrivel back up so I can keep them close to my pecker." I turned and walked back to my wife, grabbed my towel, and headed towards the car. "Who was that?" my wife asked. "The ghost of Charles Bukowski" I said. "He was nasty!!" "Yeah. We're all nasty" I said

Resolved Question: What other books might I enjoy reading?
Some authors and books I'm really into are Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs, "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, Etc. What other eclectic or unique authors or books might one suggest for me?

Resolved Question: What is Charles Bukowski's poem The Great Slob mean?
I need help, its for a AP class. Here's the link http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-great-slob/

Resolved Question: Do you like this Charles bukowski poem?
drunk on the dark streets of some city, it's night, you're lost, where's your room? you enter a bar to find yourself, order scotch and water. damned bar's sloppy wet, it soaks part of one of your shirt sleeves. It's a clip joint-the scotch is weak. you order a bottle of beer. Madame Death walks up to you wearing a dress. she sits down, you buy her a beer, she stinks of swamps, presses a leg against you. the bar tender sneers. you've got him worried, he doesn't know if you're a cop, a killer, a madman or an Idiot. you ask for a vodka. you pour the vodka into the top of the beer bottle. It's one a.m. In a dead cow world. you ask her how much for head, drink everything down, it tastes like machine oil. you leave Madame Death there, you leave the sneering bartender there. you have remembered where your room is. the room with the full bottle of wine on the dresser. the room with the dance of the roaches. Perfection in the Star Turd where love died laughing.

Resolved Question: what are good works by these writers/philosophers/poets? theres MANY of them?
albert camus carl marx douglas coupland herman hesse franz kafka jean paul sartre ivan turgenev immanuel kant macbeth victor hugo charles bukowski chistopher moore thank you!

Resolved Question: How'd I do in my attempt to imitate Charles Bukowski?
- Charity Work Stephen Rodriguez There was a dog that lived outside my window on the street. It barked sometimes and shook its tail at me. It was a patchy dog like the kind you see digging in the dirt looking for some place to go. But you know that it's got no place to go. So I gave it a piece of meat and it just looked at me asking what makes this day any different. It took the meat and ran off. It'll get hit sometime soon. They all get hit sometime.

Resolved Question: What's your favorite poem by Charles Bukowski?
I love "Hot." It's similar to the stuff I write here. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hot

Resolved Question: Someone recommend books for me!?
It'd be awesome if you did, because it's summer. Summer in a small town yields me being bored to death. Here are the last 3 books I've read: "Women"- Charles Bukowski "Cringe"- Sarah Brown "Off Season"- Jack Ketchum Much obliged!

Resolved Question: Authors like Hubert Selby Jr or Charles Bukowski?
I love Charles Bukowski & Hubert Selby Jr. Any book/author recommendations that you think that i might like?

Resolved Question: Readings of Charles Bukowski's Poems?
Is there any place on the Web that has a video or audio of a reading of any of the following poems by Charles Bukowski: "I met a genius" "For Jane" "Be Kind" "The Aliens" "O Yes" It would be nice if the poem is read by him, the author, but other professional readers reading it would work too. Thanks~!

Resolved Question: Favorite Charles Bukowski work?
Women is my favorite. One of my favorite poems by Bukowski: he knows us all hell crawls through the window without a sound enters my room takes off his hat and sits down on the couch across from me. I laugh. then my lamp drops off the table, I catch it just before it hits the floor, and in doing so, I spill my beer. "oh shit!" I say; when I look up again the son-of-a-bitch is gone--- off looking for you, my friend?

Resolved Question: Please help out with a Poem!?
This poem is titled "Bluebird" by Charles Bukowski. I read it over but I am totally sure if my understanding is on the right track. So if anyone could explain from their point of view, it'd be greatly appreciated! there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you. there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there. there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay down, do you want to mess me up? you want to screw up the works? you want to blow my book sales in Europe? there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you? So, what could this poem be talking about? Thanks a lot for any suggestions~!

Resolved Question: Pls give me a clue! ~Poem: For Jane~?
In this poem, For Jane, by Charles Bukowski, what might the part about the "dry stick" and the "tiger" mean? 225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works? in this room the hours of love still make shadows. when you left you took almost everything. I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be. what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care. Pls note that this is a love poem dedicated to the poet's passed away lover, Jane. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot!~

Resolved Question: Did Charles Bukowski write "The mercy seat"?
Charles Bukowski - Music by Johnny Cash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROBwH-cDu08&feature=related Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Mercy Seat" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFdUTM4gU-o&feature=related

Resolved Question: are Charles Bukowski works considered to be of?
literary merit? yes, no? thanks

Resolved Question: And Bukowski says what?
the harder you try by Charles Bukowski the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the loaded tray for all the wise white boys who laugh at us. no matter. no matter, as long as your shoes are tied and nobody is walking too close behind. just being able to scratch yourself and be nonchalant is victory enough. those constipated minds that seek larger meaning will be dispatched with the other garbage. back off. if there is light it will find you.

Resolved Question: Suggestions on good poets to read?
I need suggestions on poets to read, I've already read ee cummings, emily dickenson, edgar allen poe, allen ginsberg, and charles bukowski. Any others you suggest?

Resolved Question: charles bukowski quote?
is this quite from a book or a poem? if so whats the name of it "If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose" charles bukowski

Resolved Question: Suggestions of poets for me?
I haven't discovered any new poetry recently and was wondering if anybody could recommend any poets that i may enjoy. my favorite poet would be Charles Bukowski but i enjoy wilfred owen as well. i not very familiar with modern poets so if you could give me the names of some of them i would like to look them up. thanks

Resolved Question: Can you bash this Bukowski poem?
blue by Charles Bukowski blue fish, the blue night, a blue knife- everything is blue. and my cats are blue: blue fur, blue claws, blue whiskers, blue eyes. my bed lamp shines blue. inside, my blue heart pumps blue blood. my fingernails, my toenails are blue. and around my bed floats a blue ghost. even the taste inside my mouth is blue. and I am alone and dying and blue. anonymouse- bash on, bash on. Buk was crippin' back in '78

Resolved Question: Authors like Charles Bukowski?
Or authors like Hubert Selby, either work. Thanks in advanced.

Resolved Question: did you ever know a man with the beautiful eyes?
The Man With The Beautiful Eyes Charles Bukowski When we were kids there was a strange house all the shades were always drawn and we never heard voices in there and the yard was full of bamboo and we liked to play in the bamboo pretend we were Tarzan ( although there was no Jane) and there was a fish pond a large one full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw and they were tame. They came to the surface of the water and took pieces of bread from our hands. Our parents had told us: " never go near that house" so, of course, we went. We wondered if anybody lived there. Weeks went by and we never saw anybody. Then one day we heard a voice from the house " YOU GOD DAMNED WHORE!" It was a mans voice. Then the screen door of the house was flung open and the man walked out. He was holding a fifth of whiskey in his right hand. He was about 30. He had a cigar in his mouth, needed a shave. His hair was wild and uncombed and he was barefoot. In undershirt and pants but his eyes were bright they BLAZED with brightness and he said, "hey, little gentleman, having a good time, I hope?" Then he gave a little laugh and walked back into the house. We left, went back to my parents yard and thought about it. Our parents, we decided had wanted us to stay away from there because they never wanted us to see a man like that, a strong natural man with beautiful eyes. Our parents were ashamed that they were not like that man, thats why they wanted us to stay away. But we went back to that house and the bamboo and the tame goldfish. We went back many times for many weeks but we never saw or heard the man again. The shades were down as always and it was quiet. Then one day as we came back from school we saw the house. It had burned down, there was nothing left, just a smoldering twisted black foundation and we went to the fish pond and there was no water in it and the fat orange goldfish were dead there, drying out. We went back to my parents yard and talked about it and decided that our parents had burned their house down, had killed them had killed the goldfish because it was all too beautiful, even the bamboo forest had burned. They had been afraid of the man with the beautiful eyes. And we were afraid than that all throughout our lives things like that would happen, that nobody wanted anybody to be strong and beautiful like that, that others would never allow it, and that many people would have to die.

Resolved Question: How will you summarize this quote by Charles Bukowski?
Please feel free to add any thoughts/comments about it. ======== If you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. go all the way. it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. it could mean freezing on a park bench. it could mean jail, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation. isolation is the gift, all others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. and you’ll do it despite rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything else you can imagine. if you’re going to try, go all the way. there is no other feeling like that. you will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire. do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way. all the way. you will ride life straight to perfect laughter, its the only good fight there is. – And I’m doing it Enduring the long distance between us Facing myself when there’s silence and darkness Working while loosing my passion for it Living in a city that left me long ago Pushing time forward Trying to live my dream Holding my future closeby Reading Wilde’s words And still smiling Because I’m doing it!

Resolved Question: i need help with a poem !?
hey guys, i have this poem "bluebird" by charles bukowski and i need help analyzing it. like paragraph by paragraph. can anyone help please

Resolved Question: poem help!!!! i need to know whatz the idea behind this poem!?
Betting on the muse by charles bukowski? watz the idea of that poem? okay? can u just answer the question instead of picking mistakes from my statements

Resolved Question: Does anywhere know where I can read the Charles Bukowski poem "Me Against the World" online?

Resolved Question: An open letter to Charles Bukowski, a GREAT poet, but....?
Just because you walked in dark alleys and awakened with the stench of booze, knew every inch of the bar flies you used, you have no corner market on the depth of pain and your scorn for those in starched white shirts, toiling above you in towers, blinds what you think is your all seeing eye and makes me wonder if you're as smart as you think. Your ink can be genius but your judgment is harsh. Sometimes, your voice is as guilty as those you accuse. (will I lose a son over this??)

Resolved Question: Bukowski says.... "Huh?"?
Pull A String, A Puppet Moves by Charles Bukowski each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know ...

Resolved Question: Coke, Pepsi, or Bukowski?
It's Ours Charles Bukowski there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather while say flopping on a bed thinking of nothing or say pouring a glass of water from the spigot while entranced by nothing that gentle pure space it's worth centuries of existence say just to scratch your neck while looking out the window at a bare branch that space there before they get to us ensures that when they do they won't get it all ever.

Resolved Question: Do today's women still find Charles Bukowski attractive?
Would you want to meet him and get it on if you lived back in the 60s? Jeffzeise, did you read the whole question?

Resolved Question: What do you think of my poem?
I went to coffee tree to buy a bukowski poetry book Charles knew what I was going through So sad and depressed I need you in my life I told the cashier I wrote love poems She said I was the last of my kind I told her I mostly wrote about you But it would never work out except on paper Walking out I saw your vehicle at the stop sign It seemed to linger there a little longer than it needed to. It left me wondering, wishing perhaps. Did you see me too? Please give honest answers. I can take criticism. Thanks in advance, Kevin

Resolved Question: Where can I find Poetry Criticism for Charles Bukowski?
I need some literary criticism on Charles Bukowski for a term paper I'm writing, any information would help, online sources would be best, but publishing are good as well.