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Tag Archives: Charles Bukowski
LJ Interests Meme Results
Borrowed from Ed Book. After reading his results, I was intringued, but did not imagine that my own results would prove equally as insightful. I’m really quite surprised at how closely this set of ten selected interests REALLY sums up … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged Charles Bukowski, exercises, Gil Scott-Heron, India, Lefty Frizzell, personal history, revolution, sonnet, The Perennial Philosophy, Vedanta, Zen
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For Bukowski
Believe it … poetry can heal wounds; of course, an awkward, ill-set bone will sometimes need to be re-cracked, and soft illusions that so gently cradle us to bind the flesh beneath, must go. And often, language is so poor … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Charles Bukowski, exhuberance, living, poetry, power, sacrifice, words, writing
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