Charles Bukowski – O , We Are The Outcasts

… ah christ , writers are the most sickening
of all the louts !
yellow-toothed , slump-shouldered ,
gutless , flea-bitten and
obvious . . . in tinker-toy rooms
with their flabby hearts
they tell us
what’s wrong with the world-
as if we didn’t know that a cop’s club
can crack the head
and that war is a dirtier game than
marriage . . .
or down in a basement bar
hiding from a wife who doesn’t appreciate him
and children he doesn’t
want
he tells us that his heart is drowning in
vomit . hell , all our hearts are drowning in vomit ,
in pork salt , in bad verse , in soggy
love .
but he thinks he’s alone and
he thinks he’s special and he thinks he’s Rimbaud
and he thinks he’s
Pound .

and death ! how about death ? did you know
that we all have to die ? even Keats died, even
Milton !
and D. Thomas-THEY KILLED HIM , of course .
Thomas didn’t want all those free drinks
all that free pussy-
they . . . FORCED IT ON HIM
when they should have left him alone so he could
write write WRITE !

poets .

and there’s another
type. I’ve met them at their country
places (don’t ask me what I was doing there because
I don’t know) .

they were born with money and
they don’t have to dirty their hands in
slaughterhouses or washing
dishes in grease joints or
driving cabs or pimping or selling pot .

this gives them time to understand
Life .

they walk in with their cocktail glass
held about heart high
and when they drink they just
sip .

you are drinking green beer which you
brought with you
because you have found out through the years
that rich bastards are tight-
they use 5 cent stamps instead of airmail
they promise to have all sorts of goodies ready
upon your arrival
from gallons of whisky to
50 cent cigars . but it’s never
there .
and they HIDE their women from you-
their wives , x-wives , daughters , maids , so forth ,
because they’ve read your poems and
figure all you want to do is fuck everybody and
everything . which once might have been
true but is no longer quite
true .

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