Anyone have any new (or old) poetry they'd like to share? Here's one of mine to start.
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for bukowski

i felt like bukowski
reading his poetry
except that i’m a coward
cream and three sugars
his was black
there was that and i didn’t
go to the track
bet on four legged animals
with little men
called jockey
i didn’t have brown underwear
pound wine with
onehundreddollar whores
i didn’t have a landlady
though i did respect cats
and think
if men could be like that
i felt like bukowski
in that i love workers
now i am on the outside
i felt like bukowski
vulgar tongues
shiftless eyes and the street
paper bags by the train
newsweek and the times
a single bare bulb
hangs my regret
like a snarling sheriff
who just shit his pants
in the presence of a
true criminal
i felt like bukowski
i loved tits and ass
the way they came together
truly was a sight
a bad joke of sorts that
even though i didn’t
i wanted to go
to the track
bet on no. 6
i felt like bukowski when i
showed them my man
i felt like him when they turned over
spit alcohol
across the wall paper for no
good reason and laughed
i felt like him when i laughed back
most of all i felt like bukowski
without the roses
he died in a motel room
or maybe i’m a liar too
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