This wave of populism, Brexit, Johnson and Trump has demonstrated quite clearly the problems. Fed with propaganda, lies and conspiracy the stupid are a potent weapon. They have no doubt. They’ll believe anything and go to any lengths.
Two men saying the same thing in slightly different ways.
The more stupid you are the louder you get.
We need intelligence to rule – not stupidity!
Buk Stops Here
Flesh covered my bones
They put a mind in my head
In a world of futility
They put a mind in my head!
I was forced
Into
The pointless
Rat race
A letter fitting clerk
bear
In a pigeon hole
No wonder
The madhouses are filled
But I laid down my guts
And the gods answered
An odyssey
With the defeated, demented and damned
The bums and whores
I drank and fought
Until the truth
Came out
Like hot turds
Some people are dumb
So dumb
Without honesty
Nothing is real
I know what it means
To be a bum
A boozehound with an oceanic thirst
A mythic roughneck
I’m gnarled and hoary
Perennially drunk
And broke
But with the epiphany
Of alcohol
The pulp fiction hero
The laureate of lowlife
A whore
Beer costs money
Whores cost money
I dispense hilarity and despair
An intellectual
Electric shock
To the balls
Out of futility
Comes
Booze, bums and whores
To fill the void
Until the Buddhist monks
Complete
The futility
As the graveyards fill
And I run out
Of booze and whores
Life
Is a gamble
We all lose
Opher 1.4.2021
For Hank.
I’m so proud to have poems selected for inclusion in both of the magazines created to commemorate what would have been Charles Bukowski’s hundredth birthday.
The limited edition magazines are beautifully laid out and real quality. Buk would have been proud. They are packed with poems, writing, photos and drawings.
Grab yourself a copy before they are all snapped up!!
Matthias Krüger – publishing editor, Germany
Rebecca McLeish – UK consultant
NEWINGTON BLUE PRESS – www.newington.blue
I was honoured to be asked to contribute a poem to this limited edition poetry magazine put together by Matthias Kruger and Rebecca McLeish for Newington Blue Press.
The magazine celebrates what would have been Charles Bukowski’s 100th birthday on August 16th 2020.
It contains poems, writing and photos by, of, or about Buk.
Only a 100 copies are available for this beautifully produced edition.
Check them out at Newington Blue Press.
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