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Slouching Toward Nirvana
Charles Bukowski
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Slouching Toward Nirvana
Charles Bukowski
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"Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and The Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther."â Los Angeles Times Book Review
"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."âLeonard Cohen, songwriter
Los Angeles slums, bars, and more are featured in Slouching Toward Nirvana, the third of five books of unpublished poems from Charles Bukowski, considered by many to be America's most imitated and influential poet.
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PoesiaPART ONE
Bach is the hardest to play badly because
he made so few spiritual mistakes.
a 4th of July in the early 30âs
there wasnât much to celebrate,
of course,
our fathers werenât working
and the canned food from the Dept. of Relief
all had the same terrible
stale taste.
nothing much was happening anywhere and
there was a joyless resignation
in the air
but I remember this one morning at about
6 a.m. on the 4th of July
1932 or 3 or 4, I donât remember which,
when I heard loud explosions
in the street outside:
GIANT FIRECRACKERS!
I got out of bed, dressed
quickly, ran outside
and there
coming up Longwood Avenue
right in the center of the street was
my buddy Gene
walking along and throwing
giant firecrackers
into the air.
the morning fog
was just beginning to lift
and the first sun was coming
through
and there was Gene
walking
along
and making the air
explode!
I ran up to him.
âgod damn! what you got?â
âcherry bombs!
and plenty of
them!â
he also had
what was called a âpunk,â
a coated metal stick that
glowed hot and red at the
end.
Gene touched the punk
to a fuse
watched it burn down,
then tossed the bomb high
into the air
where it exploded
right at the height of its
arc.
a man came out
on his front porch
in his pajamas.
âHEY, YOU KIDS, CUT OUT THAT
SHIT! I WANT TO SLEEP!â
âcome out here and make us
stop!â said Gene
(he was big for his
age).
âIâLL TELL YOUR FATHER!â
Gene laughed, lit a cracker,
and tossed it toward the
man. it landed
right on the ledge of his large
plate glass window.
âBAANNGG!!â
luckily the window didnât
break.
the man ran back into his
house.
Gene handed me the punk
and a bomb.
âyou try oneâŠâ
I lit the fuse and waited
as long as I dared
then hurled the bomb.
it went off a dozen feet over my
head.
ânot bad,â Gene said.
we walked up Longwood to
21st street, took a left, then
went up the little hill.
âwatch this,â
said Gene.
there was a garbage can sitting out by a
fence.
Gene took the lid off, dropped
a lit bomb in there and
put the lid back
on.
âBAANNNGG!!â
the explosion sent the lid flying
about 3 feet
into the air.
âgod, theyâre powerful!â
âyeah,â said Gene.
we walked a little further up
the hill.
there was a car parked there
with the window slightly open
on the driverâs
side.
âwatch this,â said Gene.
he lit a cracker and dropped it
through the window.
âBAAANNNGG!!â
the car rocked, then
was filled with thick
blue smoke.
âthat was great!â I
said.
Gene had 3 or 4 cherry bombs left.
we turned, walked back down
the hill.
Gene lit the last ones,
one by one and arched them
as far as possible
into the air where
they exploded.
then we were standing in front
of his house.
it was now about 6:30
a.m.
âwell, thatâs it,â he said,
âitâs over.â
âthanks, Gene.â
âsure, see you
aroundâŠâ
he walked into his
house...