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Sarita Brown (10/31/2009 2:55:00 PM)
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i find it really amusing that a site dedicated to poetry would censor the poets! !
language is language.
'Bad' words are only words.
this is not Chinowsky; s poem.
this is a watered down version of his poem
and there is so much he had to say and he used the language that
shocked that disturbed that grabbed your soul and shook it good baby
censorship is wrong. Art is not for sissies. Poetry is not all
'oo la la' and sentimentality
poetry is the tool of the masses to tell the truth about the world, about love and death and life and war and loneliness. not a salve to make it all better..
i publish most of my stuff on scribd now for this reason.
but i love to come read all the growing poets.
stop censorship.
its just wrong.
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Kathleen W (9/29/2009 9:29:00 PM)
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Charles Bukowski was for his bluntness he had I dont give a crap attitude thats what I admire about him. He Is all about free verse wish it would come back instead of all this water downed stuff that we read today.
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Kaye Cee (7/29/2008 11:43:00 PM)
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I think the 'Following' signifies his cult following. And the man who called from Denver was a fan.
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Rachael Vacharasovan (11/10/2007 9:49:00 PM)
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so far this site has his worst shit. is there no justice for mr. chinaski
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Walter Durk (9/17/2007 7:02:00 PM)
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I found the entire text at another site. Since it includes some profanity I suppose some sites do not wish to include it.
I think it's a good poem, and certainly not conventional. I was amused by the frankness of it. I would not say it is my favorite piece at all, but it is interesting and a shout from a very 'free' spirit at the time.
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Ben Gieske (5/25/2007 1:04:00 PM)
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The title, A Following, may be the key to this one. I have received such calls at night, sometimes wrong numbers and sometimes a person who definitiely was drinking. Someone lonely, looking to connect with another human being, someone with a problem just wanting to talk? This poem may tell us something about are humanness.
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Josh Kostelnik (3/8/2007 10:06:00 PM)
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whoever submitted this poem left out the rest of it...
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Sean O'Carroll (5/25/2006 5:18:00 PM)
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Perhaps these short bursts of expression are meant to juggle the contents of the mind, like Buddhist koans. The purpose being to identify the difference between 'explanation' and 'understanding.' Or, perhaps, to highlight the notion that God is not always 'in the details, ' so to speak. Sometimes God watches from the perimeter.
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