I Made A Mistake Poem by Charles Bukowski

I Made A Mistake

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I reached up into the top of the closet
and took out a pair of blue panties
and showed them to her and
asked 'are these yours? '
and she looked and said,
'no, those belong to a dog.'
she left after that and I haven't seen
her since. she's not at her place.
I keep going there, leaving notes stuck
into the door. I go back and the notes
are still there. I take the Maltese cross
cut it down from my car mirror, tie it
to her doorknob with a shoelace, leave
a book of poems.
when I go back the next night everything
is still there.
I keep searching the streets for that
blood-wine battleship she drives
with a weak battery, and the doors
hanging from broken hinges.
I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.
a confused old man driving in the rain
wondering where the good luck
went.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Shane Pantone 10 July 2015

I think this poem is so much better incomplete how it is because of the name

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Brian Jani 05 May 2014

Nice poem this is

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Marcy Jarvis 03 October 2005

and she said, 'No, those belong to some dog.'

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