tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869308843623818842.post4735292148792708512..comments2024-01-14T08:03:17.880-08:00Comments on Truth and Beauty: Charles Bukowski gets life-affirmingDan Benbowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258556216655283390noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869308843623818842.post-91348075110472368832013-08-23T18:49:05.794-07:002013-08-23T18:49:05.794-07:00Once I found Bukowski, I was home free. Without Bu...<br />Once I found Bukowski, I was home free. Without Bukowski writer's couldn't write about wiping their asses or using phelgm as a lubricant. We are all drunken artists sleeping in dirty underwear and trying to figure on money for our next drink...preferably with ice in it. My favorite Bukowski? "The Night I Fucked My Alarm Clock." I read that, and I've never been the same since.<br /><br />-David BiddleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869308843623818842.post-77838169245219873422013-05-17T16:03:55.366-07:002013-05-17T16:03:55.366-07:00He is so right - even it's quite a while he wr...He is so right - even it's quite a while he wrote that!rentalifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473452241472933890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869308843623818842.post-1820790896931381462013-05-17T15:46:20.691-07:002013-05-17T15:46:20.691-07:00To me his truth which is so strong makes it all in...To me his truth which is so strong makes it all interesting, funny sad and great at once.I thinwk he knew what he wanted to tell because he wasn't a youngster when he came out.He'd seen enough in his his life to have a certain point to know what he wanted to tell.I'm half of his age but in some things he speaks exactly what I feel..rentalifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473452241472933890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869308843623818842.post-69837360901111101192012-07-30T15:16:29.565-07:002012-07-30T15:16:29.565-07:00Think of when Buk wrote that and how relevant it s...Think of when Buk wrote that and how relevant it still is.RedCentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869308843623818842.post-72273529493761720822012-07-27T09:01:47.351-07:002012-07-27T09:01:47.351-07:00Thank you for the wonderful "The Laughing Hea...Thank you for the wonderful "The Laughing Heart" poem, which I'd never heard. You're right, it changes so much that we assume about Bukoski.Margaret Benbowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17981723531235779155noreply@blogger.com