an evening with charles bukowski

i spent the evening
collecting beer bottles with
charles bukowski  - i wanted
to learn how to be a great poet, maybe
a writer someone wanted to
read..or remember

i asked, don't whores drink
out of beer bottles -
he said,  they drink
out of whatever you shove into their f...king mouth

he added, you have to be
careful where you step around here -  the streets
are full of piss; i know
i have slept in it, but
then there

is poetry
in piss,  piss and the
music of these whores.  there
is music in hell, just ask satan.   listen and you
can hear it - up there
coming from that window  - some
whore is getting paid good
f...king money
for singing
like that  - then

she will buy some beer, throw
her bottles in the gutter here - drunks
will  piss on them
poets
will collect them, recycle them -

it all has redeemable
value, nothing
is wasted - not yet, but i'm working on it

bkmackenzie
copyrighted 2011