'melancholia,' by Charles Bukowski

poem, from The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems 1951-1993

[BlutoUSN]

"I will now do 15 minutes of grieving
for the lost redhead,
I tell the gods."

Perfect...

[shanemillson]

"I listen to drums on the radio now and grin. There is something wrong with me besides melancholia."

[Lrpesme]

When I moved clear across the country with one suitcase, "The Pleasures of the Damned" was in it.  

[ramoshka]

we are here to listen to bukowski not fucking commercials !!!! damn it

[MrFatpenguin]

That was pretty good. I've always liked this poem very much.

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enry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski;in Andernach, Germany, to Heinrich Bukowski and Katharina (née Fett). Bukowski's mother was a native German and his father was an American serviceman of German descent. His paternal grandfather Leonard had emigrated to America from Germany in the 1880s. In Cleveland, Leonard met Emilie Krausse who had emigrated from Danzig, then part of Germany. Poetry is International!

[langstonify]

It's a Polish-American name, and Bukowski pronounced it "Bew-cow-skee."

[Willybird]

this was read too quickly. where is the atmosphere? you havent ruined this poem, but you certainly could have done it better. just saying.

[Bellz-TV]

0:03 Einstein of alcoholism. Still alive in our memory.:)

[langstonify]

Yes, the name's pronunciation was definitely "Americanized."

[AbsurdOod]

How terrible it must feel for you to go through that.

[MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out]

@nine11everyday Tthe reason people the world over stopped reading English Literature, in favor of American Lit., was, aside from our post WW2 publishing(&everything else) predominance, the lack of convolution(Miller, Hemingway, Kerouac et al)"High" English got it form Hoch Deutsch & all of Europe's languages, designed & priced like clothing, to set apart the educated elites. We haven't the vocabulary, the syntax, nor the will to accomplish snide and ironic. Well, most of us, anyway, old pram .tah.

[adhocsophist]

Isn't Atwood Canadian? I'm pretty sure she lives not too far from me in southern Ontario.

[locustseed]

as Hank himself said "not Buck as in Fuck, but Buke as in Puke"

[ravensfolly]

In Polish, W's are pronounced like V's... just sayin'.

[langstonify]

Or sometimes just "Hank." ;-)