For Al—- Bukowski
Bukowski, Charles:for Al—- [from Love is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977
(1977), Black Sparrow Press]
1 don’t worry about rejections, pard,
2 I’ve been rejected
3 before.
4 sometimes you make a mistake, taking
5 the wrong poem
6 more often I make the mistake, writing
7 it.
8 but I like a mount in every race
9 even though the man
10 who puts up the morning line
11 tabs it 30 to one.
12 I get to thinking about death more and
13 more
14 senility
15 crutches
16 armchairs
17 writing purple poetry with a
18 dripping pen
19 when the young girls with mouths
20 like barracudas
21 bodies like lemon trees
22 bodies like clouds
23 bodies like flashes of lightning
24 stop knocking on my door.
25 don’t worry about rejections, pard.
26 I have smoked 25 cigarettes tonight
27 and you know about the beer.
28 the phone has only rung once:
29 wrong number.
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