Charles Bukowski (16 August 1920 – 9 March 1994 / Andernach)
Poems by Charles Bukowski : 3 / 139
A Challenge To The Dark
shot in the eye
shot in the brain
shot in the ass
shot like a flower in the dance
Charles Bukowski
Submitted: Monday, January 13, 2003
Read poems about / on: dance, flower, dark
Poems by Charles Bukowski : 3 / 139
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Dear Site Manager,
I refuse to comment on the poem you have posted, because it is not Charles Bukawski's poem...
this however is...
shot in the eye
shot in the brain
shot in the ass
shot like a flower in the dance
amazing how death wins hands down
amazing how much credence is given to idiot forms of life
amazing how laughter has been drowned out
amazing how viciousness is such a constant
I must soon declare my own war on their war
I must hold to my last piece of ground
I must protect the small space I have made that has allowed me life
my life not their death
my death not their death...
You lazy effort of leaving out parts of classic work is really upsetting, it is just rude and offensive.
Al.
i thought that this poem was pretty unusual but cool
What a comment: Suck a dick!
Bur is this legal,
Ok, grow up, , , err!
You are soooooo...........stupid.......... great minds always find opposite opposition.......
such hostility Loosey, Hank Chinaski would have liked you.
Dear Dan,
Suck a dick.
yuk! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Hank is the most sane person, the most real person, the one who makes sense of this joke we call exsistence. He doesn't try, he just is....'Don't try'