love is a dog from hell.dead_passengerAugust 22 2006, 21:29:44 UTC
you're missing the bukowski life. he said;
'i'd tell them to have an unhappy love affair, hemmorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of their bed from wall to wall and then i'd tell them to have an unhappy love affair and never use a silk typewriter ribbin, avoid family picnics or being photographed in a rose garden; read Hemmingway only once, skip Faulkner ignore Gogol stare at photos of Gertrude Stein and read Sherwood Anderson in bed while eating Ritz crackers, realize that people who keep talking about sexual liberation are more frightened than you are. Listen to E. Power Biggs work the organ on your radio while you're rolling Bull Durham in the dark in a strange town with one day left on the rent after having given up friends, relatives and jobs. never consider yourself superior and/or fiar. and never try to be. have another unhappy love affair. watch a fly on a summer curtain. never try to succeed. don't shoot pool. be righteously angry when you find your car has a flat tire. take vitamins but don't lift weights or jog.
then, after all this reverse the procedure. have a good love affair. and the thing you might learn is that nobody knows anything - not the State, nor the mice the garden hose or the North Star.'
don't tell me writing is pointless. i don't know who you are.
'i'd tell them to have an unhappy love
affair, hemmorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine,
avoid opera and golf and chess,
to keep switching the head of their bed from wall to wall
and then i'd tell them to have an unhappy love affair
and never use a silk typewriter ribbin,
avoid family picnics or being photographed in a rose garden;
read Hemmingway only once, skip Faulkner ignore Gogol
stare at photos of Gertrude Stein and read Sherwood Anderson in bed while eating Ritz crackers,
realize that people who keep talking about sexual liberation are more frightened than you are.
Listen to E. Power Biggs work the organ on your radio while you're rolling Bull Durham in the dark in a strange town with one day left on the rent after having given up friends, relatives and jobs.
never consider yourself superior and/or fiar.
and never try to be.
have another unhappy love affair.
watch a fly on a summer curtain.
never try to succeed.
don't shoot pool.
be righteously angry when you find your car has a flat tire.
take vitamins but don't lift weights or jog.
then, after all this
reverse the procedure.
have a good love affair.
and the thing
you might learn
is that nobody knows anything -
not the State, nor the mice
the garden hose or the North Star.'
don't tell me writing is pointless. i don't know who you are.
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