American Idyll

yes, the river knows

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Gods Wait To Delight In You





Bono reads

"Roll the Dice"

by Charles Bukowski


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Tom Waits reads

"The Laughing Heart"

by Charles Bukowski


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Brahma and Zoroaster Temple
looking west from Poin'Dexter
Kathleen's Nipple from outside Cremation Canyon


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people keep telling me
you know,
you ought to stop writing
racetrack poems,
you have no idea
how boring they are.

well, I was at the track
the other day
and I had to go in
and take a piss.
I unzipped and stood there
grabbing and groping
and tugging.
I tugged and I groped and
I grabbed
and the guy next to me
said:
"my god, you must really
have a lot of it..."
and I told him,
"nothing like that, sir,
I've got my shorts on
backwards."

I got it out
from underneath
and pissed half of it
down my leg.
then I went out
and caught a
six to one shot
who won
by four lengths.

this is just another
boring poem.

--Charles Bukowski

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