Thursday, November 10, 2022

The Crunch - Love is a Dog From Hell






 The Crunch by Charles Bukowski 

photography: daliana pacuraru 

poetry: charles bukowski 

music: sonora -quincas moreira 

film by daliana pacuraru 

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too much
too little

too fat
too thin
or nobody.

laughter or
tears

haters
lovers

strangers with faces like
the backs of
thumb tacks

armies running through
streets of blood
waving winebottles
bayoneting and fucking
virgins.

an old guy in a cheap room
with a photograph of M. Monroe.

there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.

people are not good to each other.
people are not good to each other.
people are not good to each other.

I suppose they never will be.
I don't ask them to be.

but sometimes I think about
it.

the beads will swing
the clouds will cloud
and the killer will behead the child
like taking a bite out of an ice cream cone.

too much
too little

too fat
too thin
or nobody

more haters than lovers.

people are not good to each other.
perhaps if they were
our deaths would not be so sad.

meanwhile I look at young girls
stems
flowers of chance.

there must be a way.

surely there must be a way that we have not yet
though of.

who put this brain inside of me?

it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.

it will not say
"no."

This poem was published in "Love is a Dog From Hell". © by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes



3 comments:

DUTA said...

'People are not good to each other' - I totally agree with this view expressed in Bukowsky's amazing poem.
Thank you Dahliana for the wonderful You Tube video!

Suzana said...

Ce talentata esti in a realiza asa ceva!

Insa totul e foarte trist... si poate rezonand cu tristetile realitatii noastre.

Numai bine si un final de saptamana frumos!

Anonymous said...

I like bukowski too. I didn’t know this video. And the photo is a perfect illustration. (Or vice versa) kwarkito

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