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why i like bukowski.

i don't like him because he says cunt
or shit, pussy, dick and hard on
i don't like him because he's "nasty", "raunchy" or
"different"
listen to the man
maybe,
once,
he was just a guy
who could see through the shit of all this
and laugh
he thought maybe if he stuck
to what he knew was right,
he'd win
he was probably a nice guy young
traveled the land
made some bar friends
hung around,
saw it all,
and never tasted victory
so he dropped it all one day
in a bar
"that looks like a nice bar to take a shit in"
the man never came out the same
so he became what you all wanted to hear
"shit with a hard on, you dirty cunt"
half the time he meant it
the other half, he laughed at himself
for he became what he never wanted
even when he sold out
he bought in
why i like bukowski?
his poems of love
bluebird
his description of simple events
shared with emptiness
finding happiness in small affordable
even free things
the man was persistent
fair
and above else
honest
that's more than i can say for all of us
so in the end,
maybe he was a drunk, stupid old man
but he never took a shit on anyone
who didn't deserve it