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like flying
(10/24/2009 3:02:00 AM) |
everything he writes is just so simply true.
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Nick Thompson
(3/2/2009 1:03:00 AM) |
This poem is awesome. In favor of being kind we perpetuate the wasting of each others lives. I live in a small town and I see this all the time. People that don't have any money, live with their parents, drink all the time, can't hold a job, and have lived here their whole lives. You have to be kind otherwise you are the bad person. Soon enough you find they are just a reflection of yourself because you have accepted the way they are.
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Roger Cornish
(10/4/2008 8:44:00 AM) |
Bukowski.....The most under rated poet of the 20th Century.....
True.
Only the level of alianation he experienced can produce that kind of spirit.
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George Makris
(10/2/2008 9:30:00 AM) |
AGE wasted life... age is a cool dry beast inside us all
it crushes dreams and stops the mind
and rules the soul............gm
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Alex Klein
(1/28/2008 12:11:00 AM) |
Aw crap, here I go again!
There's a lot of people I've met in libraries who take there presence there in itself as meaning something. Full-fledged snoberry. There's the 'actual' quite person in that very library who might actually be way beyond that snobery for sure. But, more often than not; they're few. Or so it would seem. I don't frequent libraries that often. But it seems that every time I do, I'm teetering on the edge of that kind of reaction. People wrapped up in the classics looking over their shoulders at anyone that might make a noise; like some punk or something. I was dressed up in my usual clothes; sort of half skater, half stoner (I don't like those black and white terms, but I'll go with them for the purpose of description) , and I went up to the lady working the computer...I asked for Huxley's 'The Doors of Perception'. The girl started looking to see if the book was available. I was then somewhat 'attacked' by this women to my right. I say attacked, but I actually thouroughly enjoyed her fight. She looked me up and down while saying that I was just looking for books about drugs by drug addicts that are taken far too seriously. I said that a drug does'nt have an opinion. And I think I smiled at her like a lunatic after that, but felt so embarassed and idiotic. Inside I wanted to add a lot more to my deffence, but I'm not good with aggresive moments. The girl working there told me they did'nt have the book and I noticed the girl who I'd argued with smiling in the corner of my eye. I had quite a bit of time on my hands that day, and the only thing I regret is not having invited that bitter girl for a seat or two and a good argument beyond that awkward space in front of the nervous girl who was trying not to laugh and smile. I cycled home on my bike imagining all the things I could have said in my deffence. The usual.
It reminds me of scenes where a father, or mother or any family member can't take the mad lifestyle of their loved-ones but then retires to bed beneath a copy of a Van Gaugh painting and reads a writer who eventually killed themselves.
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Alex Klein
(1/27/2008 11:45:00 PM) |
Michael Speakman: Maybe they're not THAT bad. Maybe I am'nt understanding you though. But if you really feel 'they' are., should'nt you wonder about your kindness that ou speak of? Judges and all that...Maybe I did'nt spot you're sarchasm though. Were you?
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Alex Klein
(1/11/2008 4:38:00 AM) |
If you vomited and called that art, someone for sure would want to kill you. After all, time is short, right?
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Michael Speakman
(9/21/2007 8:59:00 AM) |
Buck I am kind
But others are not
They
Will
Walk
a
Mile out of their way to
Trip
Me
Up........
EG:
Too many to
Mention..
But oh
Lord..they are good!
Yes...they are good
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