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Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994 / Andernach / Germany)
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Charles Bukowski, born in 1920, began writing at a young age and was first published in the 1940s. Then Bukowksi gave up writing for the world of work .. more >>
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Alone With Everybody

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  the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.

there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.

nobody ever finds
the one.

the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

nothing else
fills.


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Charles Bukowski


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  Celine Charcoal  (1/19/2010 11:21:00 AM)

my poems are better than these.
  Michael Speakman  (1/12/2010 11:36:00 AM)

I like to read this poet because the way he puts his words together.Not necessarily for his sentiment which can be bleak.Though I think there is great humour in his work too..
  Paul Cornell  (1/6/2010 4:42:00 AM)

a very dark & bleak portrayal of life but this is just a pesamistic view anyone who really feels this i recommend you read the art of happiness by dali lama - it literally changed my life. still a very good poem. if anyone gets time check some of mine out. ty
  palas kumar ray  (3/12/2009 1:31:00 PM)

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Solid naked truth.We all are alone.Alone to fill the gap.Gap of soul to be filled in.
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  Jennylyn Valmorida  (3/1/2009 6:33:00 AM)

just what i am... i am alone with everybody! ! ! i feel the bitter so depth in me! ! !
  Poenee La  (7/11/2008 4:55:00 PM)

bukowski is a sad, bitter old man with a realism that is refreshing to us that live with dreamers, with that said his dreams were in the dark where dreams are meant to be had
  Angie Arellano  (9/16/2007 12:45:00 AM)

if we accept from the beginning that nobody ever, ever and never finds the one, we would be much happier with who we got. He will be, not THE ONE, but one of the possibilities.
I believe this is why Buk is the poet of the moment. He shows us what we already know, but we don't have concience of it.
Why do we like him? may be because he represents human suffering but with courage and humor. So close to any of us. We're all jokers...aren't we?
  Walter Durk  (9/10/2007 8:02:00 PM)

This rings so true, although we are usually hesitant to admit it, since the realization hurts.
  Brian Dorn  (7/22/2006 10:25:00 AM)

I love the title... an amazing contradiction in words but somehow accurate at the same time. A poem in of itself.

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