Henry Charles Bukowski (Генри Чарльз Буковски)

consummation of grief

I even hear the mountains
the way they laugh
up and down their blue sides
and down in the water
the fish cry
and the water
is their tears.
I listen to the water
on nights I drink away
and the sadness becomes so great
I hear it in my clock
it becomes knobs upon my dresser
it becomes paper on the floor
it becomes a shoehorn
a laundry ticket
it becomes
cigarette smoke
climbing a chapel of dark vines. . .
it matters little
very little love is not so bad
or very little life
what counts
is waiting on walls
I was born for this
I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.

1. Splash
2. Hello, Willie Shoemaker
3. the difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck
4. I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet
5. i wanted to overthrow the government but all i brought down was somebody's wife

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